Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science 2/e

Introduction - bridging the great divide. Part I "Reconstruction" of the metapsychology - the roots: Freud's abstract models of the physical apparatus; the metapsychology, the clinical theory, and the psychoanalytic method; the role of empirical research; networks of the mind - toward a psychological model for psychoanalysis. Part II Components of the multiple code theory - current research: the architecture of cognition - symbolic and subsymbolic processing; multiplicity of systems - evidence from the functional distinctions in Specific Sensory Systems; Emotion And Cognition - A New Integration; The infant's cognitive and emotional world; multiple coding on the neuropsychological level - laterlization and modularity of function. Part III The multiple code theory and the referential cycle: basic concepts of The Multiple Code Theory; The Emotion Schemas And Their Vicissitudes; linking feelings and words - the referential cycle; the referential cycle in free association; the referential cycle on fantasies and dreams; the multiple code theory and metapsychology; empirical studies of the analytic process; notes concerning the psychoanalytic research agenda. Last words - 1 - the Tower of Babel - 2 - the dead man's tale.