And my heart will go on
Michael
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From: "Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu>
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)"
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Cc: "Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 9:14 PM
Subject: [tips] Ahoy! Iceberg Ahead!
So, I got my review copy of Douglas Whitman's "Cognition"
textbook today (ominously, it's identified as First Edition) and
I was skimming through the chapters. There is a chapter on
consciousness (another bad sign) and what did I behold?
A subsection labelled "Conscousness Is the Tip of the Iceberg".
Quoting from page 332:
|Sigmund Freud, proposed an "iceberg model of consciousness,"
|illustrated in Figure 10.2.
Fig. 10.2, on page 334, is similar to many other "iceberg"
representations Tipsters may be familiar with but with far
more detail to the three levels (i.e., conscious level, preconscious
level, and unconscious level). Of course, there is no citation either
to Freud or any of the "usual suspects". It's almost as though
Whitman's saying so was enough to make it true for him. ;-)
A check of his references shows two entries by Freud, both
in Strachey's "The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological
Works of Sigmund Freud" (Hogarth Press). First is the 1925
"Inhibitions, symptoms, and anxiety" (pp77-175). Second is 1895
"Project for a scientific psychology" (page 302). Anyone have a
copy handy to check what is on these pages?
I thought that intro psych textbooks were abandoning the
Freud iceberg and it comes as a surprise that a textbook
for an upper level course would use such a figure. Is this
a sign of progress in cognitive psychology or another sign
of the apocalypse?
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
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