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Recollecting the Past in the Present: Memory in the Dialogue Between Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science

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Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

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In the last 20 or 30 years a vision of Sigmund Freud has been seeming to become reality: It is well known that Freud never gave up his hope that some day developments in the neurosciences might contribute to a “scientific foundation” of psychoanalysis in terms of the natural sciences. One reason why Freud himself did not continue his own attempts for such a neuroscientific foundation of psychoanalysis, his Outline of psychoanalysis [1], was his confrontation with the obvious limitations of the methodologies of the neurosciences of his time [2]. He then consistently defined psychoanalysis as a “pure psychology of the unconscious.”

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Leuzinger-Bohleber, M., Pfeifer, R. (2006). Recollecting the Past in the Present: Memory in the Dialogue Between Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science. In: Mancia, M. (eds) Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/88-470-0550-7_3

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