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Freud's 'problem': cognitive neuroscience & psychoanalysis working together on memory.

Gilbert Pugh

    The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
    |January 11, 2003
    PubMed
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    This study explores Freud's evolving memory concepts, linking them to modern cognitive neuroscience. It proposes viewing internal objects as "memory-objects," analogous to implicit and explicit memory systems.

    Area of Science:

    • Psychology
    • Cognitive Neuroscience

    Background:

    • Traces the evolution of Sigmund Freud's theories on memory from the Project to the second topography.
    • Highlights the resonance between Freud's early psychological concepts and contemporary cognitive neuroscience.
    • Introduces key Freudian concepts: perceptual identity, internal perception, and affect theory.

    Observation:

    • Proposes that identification functions as a form of memory.
    • Connects modern memory theory with the psychoanalytic concept of the superego.
    • Suggests renaming internal objects as 'memory-objects'.

    Findings:

    • Frames 'memory-objects' using the cognitive neuroscience distinction between implicit and explicit memory.
    • Relates these 'memory-objects' to specific brain regions: amygdala, basal ganglia, and hippocampus.

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  • Integrates insights from Klein, Fairbairn, and Ogden on the dynamic nature of internal objects.

    • Implications:

    • Discusses aberrations of memory within the proposed implicit memory-object framework.
    • Suggests the implicit memory-object system offers a novel perspective on psychological phenomena.
    • Opens avenues for interdisciplinary research between psychoanalysis and neuroscience.