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The Psyche

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The psyche’s spandrel nullifies tension by eliminating the finality of death. This spandrel of the psyche (referred in the conclusion of Chap. 2) acts as an implantation of a trick. As an example, this spandrel can be appreciated by an examination of the thesis regarding the process of ‘function’ in evolution as this function relates to a foreboding regarding such finality of death.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    How such a basic-wish is formed will be discussed forthwith in Chap. 4 on: History of the Psycho/Evolutionary Theory of Emotions.

  2. 2.

    On a personal note, this author (Kellerman, 2004), composed a letter to Professor Crick inviting him to do two psychoanalytic sessions in order to reveal the presence of clinical phenomena of Freudian dream theory. This proposal was not designed to foreclose the validity of neural networks as they relate to dreams. The idea was for Crick to report a dream of the previous night in order to trace the elements of the dream, and to attempt to identify dynamics relevant to Crick’s life as well as to discuss it all at both sessions. At the time Crick was living and working in La Jolla, California. The letter to Professor Crick was never mailed. He died the very next day on July 28, 2004.

  3. 3.

    The essential X-ray diffraction image of the DNA was provided by Rozalind Franklin who died several years prior to the Nobel award and whose name was therefore excluded in this first among equals of the Nobel.

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Kellerman, H. (2020). The Psyche. In: The Unconscious Domain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35009-3_3

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