Representation of Things X Word Representation

The distinction between representation and representation of speech thing has its origin in search of the young Freud’s aphasia (loss of power of expression through speech and writing). Are expressions used by Freud in his meta-psychological texts to distinguish types of representation: the representation of things, primarily visual, and the word representation, mainly acoustic. This distinction has to achieve a meta-psychological Freud, as the junction between the representation of things and the representation of the corresponding word characterizes the secondary system (pre-conscious – conscious)insteadto the primary ( unconscious ), whichcomprises only memory traces of thing .

From the “Project for a Scientific Psychology – 1895″we find the idea of associating with a verbal image content, the memory can get your “quality score” specific consciousness. This idea will remain constant in Freud and is fundamental to understanding the passage of an impulse, a drive system’s primary (unconscious), purely visual, for the secondary process (conscious), or the identity of perception (unconscious) for the identity of thought (conscious). The preconscious representation includes a representation of the corresponding word and thing, in addition to other representations (touch, smell and those related to taste), while the representation of the unconscious is the only thing (visual). Thus, the preconscious-conscious, there is always the memory of the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste), since in the unconscious, in principle, we only have the visuals.