Representation

From No Subject - Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis
Revision as of 22:10, 20 May 2019 by 127.0.0.1 (talk) (The LinkTitles extension automatically added links to existing pages (<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://github.com/bovender/LinkTitles">https://github.com/bovender/LinkTitles</a>).)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to: navigation, search



Freud distinguished between "word-presentations" -- the product of the secondary processes of conscious thought - and "thing-presentations" - the product of the primary processes of the unconscious.

These are very complicated ideas in Freud and he never explicitly spelt out what he meant by them.