Understanding the Unconscious through Memories

Authors

  • João Carlos Melo Serviço de Psiquiatria do Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca, E.P.E.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25752/psi.7644

Keywords:

Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory, Unconscious, Repression.

Abstract

Based on the Conference set on the Simposium of the Service of Psychiatry of the HFF, the following work refers to the different types of memories and, with clinical illustrations, sets a relation between them and the Unconscious, as described by Freud. It’s stated that the repression acts solely upon the content of the explicit memory, while the implicit memory keeps the experiences that can’t be evoked consciously, manifesting themselves as emotional reactions, behaviors or performances in diverse situations of the day to day life and in the transferencial process.

Published

2015-06-01

Issue

Section

Proceedings