The mind beyond our immediate awareness

Freudian, Jungian, and cognitive models of the unconscious

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ID9056573
AuthorsSoren R Ekstrom (Watertown City School District, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume49
Issue5
Pages657-682
Publication date2004-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Analytical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8774 • E-ISSN: 1465-5922
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.0021-8774.2004.00494.x
PMID15533197
OpenAlexW2132109934
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited22

Several branches of cognitive science now focus on the nature of the unconscious. This paper explores some of the findings and models from this research. By introducing formulations based on non‐clinical data, the cognitive scientists—in neural linguistics, computational modelling, and neuroscience—may depart from the older psychoanalytic formulations. An understanding of unconscious neural processes is nevertheless emerging showing how synapses are modified by experience and how learning, conscious and unconscious, is due to this important aspect of brain plasticity. Freud and Jung's formulations about the unconscious psyche, representing the main tenets of depth psychology, are also based on a conception of the mind as extending beyond immediate awareness. However, their models are more hypothetical in that their data, almost exclusively, come from treatments of psychotherapy patients and their verbal accounts. So how do these two conceptions of the unconscious match, where do they differ? And how does the neural understanding in the present research support theories and practices of analytic treatments

Analytical psychology · Cognition · Cognitive science · Freudian slip · Freudian theory · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Unconscious mind · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Jungian Analytical Psychology · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

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