Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Psychology
A Formalization of Freud's Earliest Theory
- 1st Edition - January 28, 1985
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Cornelis Wegman
- Language: English
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Request a sales quotePsychoanalysis and Cognitive Psychology: A Formalization of Freud's Earliest Theory is an attempt to translate psychoanalytic theory into a computer model—a model psychoanalysts will accept as accurately mirroring Freud's theory, while at the same time satisfying the demands made upon any formal model within contemporary psychology. Given the vast extent and the continued development of psychoanalytic theory, the present study focuses on Freud's earliest theory. In a sense, this limitation is a natural one. Anyone really wishing to come to grips with psychoanalytic theory will listen to Freud's advice and follow the path he himself took. In his earliest theory, the theory of abreaction, Freud lays the foundation for all of his later work. Here, for the first time, we encounter concepts—psychical conflict, repression, unconscious ideas, the principle of constancy—which have proved decisive for the development of psychoanalytic theory. Moreover, this was the period during which Freud himself was obsessed by the idea of representing his theory in a single, coherent model, much as in natural science. The present monograph may be regarded as a belated effort to realize the ideal that Freud had in mind in his Project for a Scientific Psychology: a psychology in which psychical processes are represented in such a manner that they become ""perspicuous and free from contradiction"".
Preface1. Introduction Critique of Psychoanalytic Theory Obsolescence of the Critique Plan of the Book2. The Theory of Abreaction: a Brief Overview Memories and Hysteria The Theory of Abreaction3. Ideas: the Problem of Cognitive Representation Ideas Incompatible Ideas The Ego Representation of Knowledge Structures The Conceptual Representation of a Traumatic Event Discussion4. Affect in the Theory of Abreaction Introduction The Physiological Aspect The Cognitive Aspect: Idea and Affect Termination of the Affective State Proton Pseudos: False Connections between Ideas and Affect Freud's Dilemma: The Relationship between Psychology and Physiology5. Information-Processing Systems and the Relationship between Psychology and Physiology The Concept of Reduction Information Theory Shannon's Concept of Information and Information in a Wider Sense Basic Features of an Elementary Cybernetic System The Computer: Cognitive Representations in a Machine The Relationship between Program and Machine The Relationship between Psychology and Physiology Summary6. Fitting Affect into the Model Freud's Dilemma and a Solution Affect as a Multileveled Phenomenon Arousal Involuntary Motor Responses Experience of Affect: an Evaluation Process Control of Emotional Expression Abreaction: the Function of Emotional Expression Summary7. Working-over Working-over in the Theory of Abreaction Fitting Working-over into the Model Abreaction, Working-over, and the Principle of Constancy Programming Working-over: Reproduction8. Memory Freud's Conception of Memory Fitting Episodic Memory into the Model9· Symptom Formation Introduction Anxiety Neurosis Obsessional Ideas Hysterical Symptom Formation Summary10. EpilogueBibliographyAuthor IndexSubject Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 28, 1985
- No. of pages (eBook): 316
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483248233
- Hardback ISBN: 9780127413808
- eBook ISBN: 9781483272290
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