Du Probleme de L'inconscient a une Philosophie de L'homme: 1. Les
                        theories Freudiennes sur la structure de L'organisme psychique (From the
                        Problem of the Unconscious to a Philosophy of Man: Vol. 1: Freudian Theory
                        on the Structure of the Psychic Organism).

DAVID ELKIND

doi:10.1037/013886

Du Probleme de L'inconscient a une Philosophie de L'homme: 1. Les theories Freudiennes sur la structure de L'organisme psychique (From the Problem of the Unconscious to a Philosophy of Man: Vol. 1: Freudian Theory on the Structure of the Psychic Organism).

Contemporary Psychology ◽

10.1037/013886 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 15 (9) ◽

pp. 584-584

Author(s):

DAVID ELKIND

Keyword(s):

The Unconscious ◽

Freudian Theory

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A cesura freudiana: um novo Logos, um outro sujeito (The Freudian censorship: a new Logos, a new subject)

Estudos da língua(gem) ◽

10.22481/el.v11i1.1210 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 39

Author(s):

Auterives Maciel Jr.

Keyword(s):

The Unconscious ◽

Freudian Theory ◽

The Subject ◽

Way Of Thinking

Este trabalho analisa os principais aspectos da teoria freudiana, colocando em evidência uma nova lógica que Freud nos lega, a partir da invenção do conceito de inconsciente, e uma outra concepção de sujeito que daí resultará. O propósito das duas tarefas é pôr em relevo a novidade de uma outra forma de pensar, acentuando a cisão que ela estabelece no seio da racionalidade ocidental.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Logos. Inconsciente. Desejo. Sujeito. Cesura. ABSTRACTThis paper analyses the main aspects of Freudian theory, shedding light on a new logic which Freud leaves to us from the invention of the unconscious concept, and the resulting new way to view the subject that it ignited. The purpose of the two tasks is to highlight the novelty of a different way of thinking, pointing out the split it creates within Western rationality.KEYWORDS: Logos. Uncounsious. Desire. Subject. Censorship.

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Behavior in the Brain

Journal of Psychophysiology ◽

10.1027/0269-8803/a000016 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 76-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Martin M. Monti ◽

Adrian M. Owen

Keyword(s):

Motor Behavior ◽

Functional Neuroimaging ◽

Brain Activity ◽

Motor Output ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Ethical Implications ◽

Brain Responses ◽

Minimally Conscious ◽

Brain Insults ◽

Brain Behavior

Recent evidence has suggested that functional neuroimaging may play a crucial role in assessing residual cognition and awareness in brain injury survivors. In particular, brain insults that compromise the patient’s ability to produce motor output may render standard clinical testing ineffective. Indeed, if patients were aware but unable to signal so via motor behavior, they would be impossible to distinguish, at the bedside, from vegetative patients. Considering the alarming rate with which minimally conscious patients are misdiagnosed as vegetative, and the severe medical, legal, and ethical implications of such decisions, novel tools are urgently required to complement current clinical-assessment protocols. Functional neuroimaging may be particularly suited to this aim by providing a window on brain function without requiring patients to produce any motor output. Specifically, the possibility of detecting signs of willful behavior by directly observing brain activity (i.e., “brain behavior”), rather than motoric output, allows this approach to reach beyond what is observable at the bedside with standard clinical assessments. In addition, several neuroimaging studies have already highlighted neuroimaging protocols that can distinguish automatic brain responses from willful brain activity, making it possible to employ willful brain activations as an index of awareness. Certainly, neuroimaging in patient populations faces some theoretical and experimental difficulties, but willful, task-dependent, brain activation may be the only way to discriminate the conscious, but immobile, patient from the unconscious one.

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“The Unconscious” in Current Psychology

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040/a000017 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 193-201 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Elisabeth Norman

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Psychology ◽

Verbal Report ◽

Psychological Research ◽

Operational Definition ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Apparent Lack ◽

Unconscious Processing ◽

Unconscious Processes ◽

Intermediate States ◽

Definition Of

A series of vignette examples taken from psychological research on motivation, emotion, decision making, and attitudes illustrates how the influence of unconscious processes is often measured in a range of different behaviors. However, the selected studies share an apparent lack of explicit operational definition of what is meant by consciousness, and there seems to be substantial disagreement about the properties of conscious versus unconscious processing: Consciousness is sometimes equated with attention, sometimes with verbal report ability, and sometimes operationalized in terms of behavioral dissociations between different performance measures. Moreover, the examples all seem to share a dichotomous view of conscious and unconscious processes as being qualitatively different. It is suggested that cognitive research on consciousness can help resolve the apparent disagreement about how to define and measure unconscious processing, as is illustrated by a selection of operational definitions and empirical findings from modern cognitive psychology. These empirical findings also point to the existence of intermediate states of conscious awareness, not easily classifiable as either purely conscious or purely unconscious. Recent hypotheses from cognitive psychology, supplemented with models from social, developmental, and clinical psychology, are then presented all of which are compatible with the view of consciousness as a graded rather than an all-or-none phenomenon. Such a view of consciousness would open up for explorations of intermediate states of awareness in addition to more purely conscious or purely unconscious states and thereby increase our understanding of the seemingly “unconscious” aspects of mental life.

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