Unrepressed Unconscious, Implicit Memory, and Clinical Work
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : September 2016
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 208
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Neuroscience - Catalogue No : 36633
- ISBN 13 : 9781782202486
- ISBN 10 : 178220248X
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Unrepressed Unconscious, Implicit Memory, and Clinical Work analyses the psychological and neurobiological characteristics of what nowadays goes under the name of “unrepressed unconscious”, as opposed to Freud’s earlier version of a kind of “repressed unconscious” encountered and described initially in his work with hysterical patients.
Pioneering Italian psychoanalyst and neuroscientist Mauro Mancia has distinguished this seminal Freudian concept from an earlier version of the unconscious (preverbal and pre-symbolic) that he terms “unrepressed”, and which he describes as “having its foundations in the sensory experiences the infant has with his mother (including hearing her voice, which recalls prosodic experiences in the womb). In connection with this description of two different kinds of unconscious, a 'double' system of memory has been identified: if a traumatic event or series of events takes place when the nervous system is not ready to encode them linguistically and register them within the declarative memory system, they leave a trace within the implicit memory and particularly within the right brain, which both Mancia and Schore see as the seat of implicit memory and of that kind of unconscious that is not available for recollection but has not been properly repressed either (therefore “unrepressed”).
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‘A book dedicated to the “unrepressed unconscious” is a long-awaited contribution to psychodynamic theory and practice. It makes us address questions to which we cannot, and probably we should not, give final answers. How does the clinician move between the unconscious of neuroscience and the unconscious of psychoanalysis? What is the role of implicit memory in normal and pathological functioning? How are our ideas of different kinds of unconscious affected by our understanding trauma, dissociation, attachment, and implicit relational knowledge? Giuseppe Craparo and Clara Mucci have edited a thought-provoking book wherein the major scholars of the field are called to share their different perspectives, keeping us suspended between the longing for answers and the desire for new questions.’
-Vittorio Lingiardi, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
‘The notion of the unrepressed unconscious has been a major psychoanalytic puzzle since the inception of the discipline. Psychoanalytic thinking about the nature of consciousness has always implicitly distinguished between a non-conscious and a dynamically unconscious mental content, whether marked by distinctions such as repressed vs. unrepressed, preconscious vs. unconscious or, using Sandler’s three-box model, past vs. present unconscious. This excellent book attempts to map this somewhat controversial field and addresses the dichotomy from six distinct perspectives that share the wish to integrate contemporary neuroscience with psychoanalytic perspectives, using the clinical setting as the primary constraint on theory-building.’
-Peter Fonagy, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, University College London; from the Foreword
About the Editor(s)
Giuseppe Craparo is a psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is a full professor of Clinical Psychology and coordinator of the MSc programme in Clinical Psychology at the Kore University of Enna. He holds a PhD in Psychology and is also a member of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies and the Italian Institute of Group Psychoanalysis (IIPG). He is the author of several works on psychoanalysis, psychopathology, addictions, trauma, and dissociation, including Unrepressed Unconscious, Implicit Memory, and Clinical Work (co-edited with Clara Mucci; Karnac, 2017); Rediscovering Pierre Janet: Trauma, Dissociation, and a New Context for Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2019).
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Clara Mucci PhD, is professor of psychodynamic psychology at the University of Bergamo, Italy, where she is also Director of the School of Specialization in Health Psychology. She had served as professor of English Studies (Shakespeare) until 2012. She is a licensed psychoanalyst and practices in Milan, Italy. She holds PhDs in both English Literature (Genova, 1994) and in Literature, Anthropology and Psychoanalysis (ILA, Emory University, USA, 1999) besides a PsyD in Clinical Psychology (Chieti, 2004; Milan, SIPP, 2011). She is the author of five books on Shakespeare and literary theory and in the field of psychoanalysis her major publications are: Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma (Routledge, 2013); Borderline Bodies (Norton, 2018); and Resilience and Survival (Karnac, 2022). With Giuseppe Craparo, she edited Unrepressed Unconscious, Implicit Memory and Clinical Work (Karnac, 2017). She co-edited, with Arnold Rachman, Ferenczi’s Confusion of Tongues Theory of Trauma (Routledge, 2023). She lectures extensively and gives supervision in several countries to different training institutes and mental health clinics.
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