The aspirational focus of this " tableau vivant ", while situating the artist as an object on view, insists on an aesthetics of connections : between the artist and beholders, between the artists [ sic ] and the art institutions, and between the artist's conscious and unconscious processes.
42.
While I doubt the psychoanalytic approach to dreams is very sound ( it is more literary than it is scientific ), the idea that dreams may be the result of unconscious processes is not primae faciae absurd, nor is there a good scientific understanding of them at the moment.
43.
The fact that experience precedes knowledge can be taken to mean that development is an unconscious process that gets carried out first, while knowledge becomes conscious later on only . " Unconscious " refers to activities that people carry out without knowing what the end results will be, or where their actions will lead.
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Bion's concept of maternal " reverie " as the capacity to sense ( and make sense of ) what is going on inside the infant has been an important element in post-Kleinian thought : " reverie is an act of faith in unconscious process . . . essential to alpha-function'" It is considered the equivalent of Stern's attunement, or Winnicott's maternal preoccupation.
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As opposed to the psychoanalytic tradition, driven by the relatively speculative ( in the sense of being hard to empirically verify ) theoretical concepts such as the Oedipus complex or Electra complex, the cognitive tradition of research on unconscious processes is based on relatively few theoretical assumptions and is very empirically oriented ( i . e ., it is mostly data driven ).
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Gaskell uses it when exploring, for example, the unconscious process that allows Thornton, whose suffering in love disturbs his composure and his control of his feelings, and leads him to communicate with Higgins ( Matus, 2007, p 40 ) : " and then the conviction went in, as if by some spell, and touched the latent tenderness of his heart " ( chapter 39 ).
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In the 1990s, he opened up large avenues in Ferenczi's thinking that were previously undiscovered, above all the critical value of " utraquism " or the productive and free-associative use of analogies in analytic work with unconscious processes, in particular the use of the analogy of the " teratoma " ( an embryonic form of tumour ) to engage with the after-effects of sexual abuse.
