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Freud


I have to wonder if, because of the relaxed state of mind that the cocaine gave to Freud, if he really did get into the unconscious state of mind (Thorton Webpages). .
             The unconscious mind is the state of mind where you store your repressed memories, the ones that you really don't want to call upon. "In Freud's vision, unconscious memories are dynamic entities embroiled in a fight against the forces of repression; they result from special experiences that relate to our deepest conflicts and desires Implicit memories arise as a natural consequence of such everyday activities as perceiving, understanding, and acting." (Schacter 190-191). .
             Implicit memory may be far more mundane than Freud's dynamic "unconscious mind", but it is more significant since it reaches into every aspect of our lives. As Daniel Schacter notes: "If we"re unaware that something is influencing our behavior, there is little we can do to understand or contradict it." (p 191). Most memories that are lost is due to the fact that they were never elaborately encoded. Perception is mostly a filtered and defragmented process. Our interests and needs affect perception, but most of what is available to us as potential sense data will never be processed. And most of what is processed will be forgotten. Amnesia is not rare but the standard condition of the human species. We do not forget in order to avoid being reminded of unpleasant things. We forget either because we did not perceive closely in the first place or we did not encode the experience either in the parietal lobes of the cortical surface (for short-term or working memory) or in the prefrontal lobe (for long-term memory) (Wheel Webpage).
             The Interpretation of Dreams also led into the friendship with Carl G. Jung, who followed Freud in most of his studies. The two published the book, Symbols of Transformation, this book covered topics such as the stages of life, instinct and the unconscious, the relationship between the ego and the unconscious mind, and analytical psychology to poetry (in which Jung was the founder of) (Gannon Webpage).


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