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This paper seeks to dig out implicit assumptions and obscure remarks that Freud makes about cognitive processes; it thus constitutes a sort of cognitive psychoanalysis of Freud. We find suggestions of a theory of perception that are strongly reminiscent of Helmholtz; theories of person perception derived from Lipps, as well as the traditional inference theory, neither of which, however, Freud appears to have used in his concrete work with patients; and associationistic theories of thinking, memory, and recall. At the same time we find interesting, if perhaps unnoticed, departures from these traditional theories. As soon as he begins to think about a process—when he is not overwhelmed by such authorities as Helmholtz and Lipps—we find hints of the brilliance which characterizes Freud’s thinking in other areas.
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Henle, M. (1984). Freud’s Secret Cognitive Theories. In: Royce, J.R., Mos, L.P. (eds) Annals of Theoretical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6450-8_7
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