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<DIV>Sounds like Freud intuited a lot of material that modern neurobiology would support. </DIV>
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<DIV>All thanks, David. </DIV>
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<DIV>Meanwhile, let's hope this message makes it out of my laptop and into the paleopsych listserv, which may be bouncing my emails because they come from aol. Howard</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 7/1/2004 12:33:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, dsmith06@maine.rr.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Actually, Freud thought that repression is an <EM>unconscious</EM> act. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Freud thought that conscious states must have sensory qualities in order to be conscious. Counscious is a fabric of smells, tastes, sounds, sights etc. It follows that mental states devoid of these 'qualia' (as they are nowadays called) must be unconscious. Thought, then, has to be unconscious.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>How, then, do these nonsensory thoughts become conscious? Freud thought that they have to become associated with language. Language can serve as a go-between mediating the relationship between thought and consciousness because it shares the same abstract structure as thought but it is also a richly sensory symbol system. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Freud thought that repression is a motiviated failure to translate unconscious thought into language, a failure to articulate our own thoughts to ourselves. According to this thesis repression can't be conscious because it <EM>undercuts</EM> consciousness.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">----------<BR>Howard Bloom<BR>Author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century<BR>Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University; Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute<BR>www.howardbloom.net<BR>www.bigbangtango.net<BR>Founder: International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member: Epic of Evolution Society; founding board member, The Darwin Project; founder: The Big Bang Tango Media Lab; member: New York Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society, Academy of Political Science, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, International Society for Human Ethology; advisory board member: Youthactivism.org; executive editor -- New Paradigm book series.<BR>For information on The International Paleopsychology Project, see: www.paleopsych.org<BR>for two chapters from <BR>The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, see www.howardbloom.net/lucifer<BR>For information on Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, see www.howardbloom.net<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>