The Cognitive Interpretation of Psychoanalysis: Problems and Transformation of Concepts.

Abstract

Problems referring to psychoanalytical theories, in what concerns a fundamental revision of its concepts, beginning with the development and discoveries of modern Psychology, oblige a search in the psychoanalytic concept of unconsciousness for the possible cause of the impossibility of a true epistemological reformulation of its founding, which is demanded by this new knowledge of Psychology. Linking modern psychoanalytical authors with the cognitive theories, we attempt a criticism in the sense of clarifying the origins of such theoretical impasses and its possible solutions within a cognitive perspective.