Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience: From Unconscious Fantasies to Neural Algorithms

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'The topic of this book is in the middle of a hundred years old battlefield. Psychoanalysisis an essential part of the self-understanding of a western man, but it has also beenheavily criticized from its beginnings. The unconscious enjoys a key role in psychoanalytic thinking - Freud even called hisideas concerning the unconscious a "cornerstone" of psychoanalysis. Thus, when focusing on the psychoanalytic- andcognitive neuroscience-views of the unconscious, one cannot keep apart from those heated Freud-wars.For decades psychoanalysis has a monopoly for the unconscious. In the 1980's, however, cognitive orientation interestedin consciousness, and that was followed by the boom of study of the unconscious.

The unconscious has been studiedit in the scope of several empirical settings, and under variety of concepts - at least the terms implicit memory, implicitknowledge, procedural knowledge, semantic activation without conscious identification, and tacit knowledge has to bementioned.In this book, I aim at show how the psychoanalysts' answer might be seen in terms of the cognitivists' ones - it is created anapproach, through which phenomena found by psychoanalysts can be studied in the framework of cognitive neuroscience.The approach takes seriously both the clinical data gathered in the scope of clinical practise of psychoanalysis duringthe past 110 years, and the empirical and theoretical achievements of the present-day cognitive neuroscience andevolutionary theory.'

The Author from the Introduction