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

The aim of Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience is to create a conception of the Freudian things around the unconscious that takes seriously both the clinical data gathered in the scope of psychoanalytic clinical practice during the past 110 years, and the empirical and theoretical achievements of cognitive science and evolution Review "Talvitie (an occupational psychologist based in Finland) explores Freudian conceptions of the unconscious in light of the empirical and theoretical work of cognitive science and evolutionary theory. He reviews the phenomena that have been explained with reference to the "unconscious," "mind," and "consciousness;" discusses the ontological presuppositions found within psychoanalytic understandings of the unconscious; and addresses Freudian ideas in light of recent cognitive science research concerning memory, attention, implicit knowledge, neural algorithms, and the self, as well as Daniel Dennett's model of intentional, physical, and design-level explanations of the mind."-- (03/01/2010) About the Author Vesa Talvitie is a Doctor of Psychology, licensed psychotherapist, organisational consultant (FINOD) and currently works as an occupational psychologist for the City of Helsinki. In addition to numerous articles on psychoanalysis in Finnish and English, he is the author of 'Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience: From Unconscious Fantasies to Neural Algorithms' and 'The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories: Project for a Scientific Enough Psychoanalysis'.