The primary process and the unconscious: Experimental evidence supporting two psychoanalytic presuppositions
The primary process and the unconscious: Experimental evidence supporting two psychoanalytic presuppositions
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DOI：
10.1516/0020757001599951
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发表时间：
2000-06-01
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Shevrin, H
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作者：
Brakel, LAW;Kleinsorge, S;Shevrin, H
作者报告了两个实验，旨在测试初级过程的一个重要特征：无意识的属性分类，而不是关系。这些实验的目的是提供支持，独立的临床情况下，心理无意识的预设和预设，无意识的心理状态是组织沿着初级过程线。他们的成果令人鼓舞。他们发现：（1）可以做出无意识的相似性判断;（2）这些判断是基于属性（初级加工机制）而不是关系（次级加工机制）。这一独立的证据是在对照实验研究中获得的，它支持了两个基本的精神分析预设，这对精神分析来说应该是个好消息，因为许多方面一直在批评基本的精神分析思想缺乏独立的验证。本文首先概述了初级加工过程，特别关注属性分类的作用，这是本研究中探索的初级加工过程的一个特定方面。其次，简要介绍了初级过程以往经验研究的历史，并介绍了目前的实验。
The authors report on two experiments designed to test an important feature of the primary process: unconscious categorisation by attributes rather than by relations. These experiments were designed to provide support, independently of the clinical situation, for the presupposition of a psychological unconscious and for the presupposition that unconscious mentation is organised along primary-process lines. Their results were encouraging. They found that (1) unconscious similarity judgements could be made; and (2) these judgements were based on attributes (a primary-process mechanism) rather than relationships (a secondary-process mechanism). This independent evidence, obtained in controlled experimental studies supporting two fundamental psychoanalytic presuppositions, should be welcome news to psychoanalysis, given the continuing criticism from many quarters that basic psychoanalytic ideas lack independent validation. This paper begins with an overview of the primary processes with a special focus on the role of categorisation by attribute, the particular aspect of primary process explored in this study. Next a brief history of previous empirical investigations of primary process is given, folio wing which the current experiments are presented.