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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Transitions versus dissociations

a paradigm shift in unconscious cognition

Luis M. Augusto

pp. 269-291

Abstract

Since Freud and his co-author Breuer spoke of dissociation in 1895, a scientific paradigm was painstakingly established in the field of unconscious cognition. This is the dissociation paradigm. However, recent critical analysis of the many and various reported dissociations reveals their blurred, or unveridical, character. Moreover, we remain ignorant with respect to the ways cognitive phenomena transition from consciousness to an unconscious mode (or the reverse). This hinders us from filling in the puzzle of the unified mind. We conclude that we have reached a Kuhnian crisis in the field of unconscious cognition, and we predict that new models, incorporating partly the relevant findings of the dissociation paradigm—but also of dynamic psychology—, will soon be established. We further predict that some of these models will be largely based on the pairs representation–process and analog–digital.

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(2018) Axiomathes 28 (3).

Pages: 269-291

DOI: 10.1007/s10516-017-9366-y

Full citation:

Augusto Luis M. (2018) „Transitions versus dissociations: a paradigm shift in unconscious cognition“. Axiomathes 28 (3), 269–291.