The interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud; James Strachey

Author:Sigmund Freud; James Strachey
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Body, Dreams - General, Psychology, General, Self-Help, Mind & Spirit, Psychoanalysis, Movements - Psychoanalysis, Dreams, Movements
ISBN: 9780380010004
Publisher: Avon
Published: 1998-12-13T20:00:00+00:00

FIG. 1

We now have reason to admit a first differentiation at the sensory end. The percepts that come to us leave in our psychic apparatus a trace, which we may call a memory-trace. The function related to this memory-trace we call `the memory'. If we hold seriously to our resolution to connect the psychic processes into systems, the memory-trace can consist only of lasting changes in the elements of the systems. But, as has already been shown elsewhere, obvious difficulties arise when one and the same system is faithfully to preserve changes in its elements and still to remain fresh and receptive in respect of new Get any book for free on: www.Abika.com

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occasions of change. In accordance with the principle which is directing our attempt, we shall therefore ascribe these two functions to two different systems. We assume that an initial system of this apparatus receives the stimuli of perception but retains nothing of them --that is, it has no memory; and that behind this there lies a second system, which transforms the momentary excitation of the first into lasting traces. The following would then be the diagram of our psychic apparatus:

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