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Freudian Perspectives of Memory: Article Review

This article review is similar to the other article review regarding the nature of memory, yet in this case, the articles to be referenced here, describe the nature of memory with regard to psychoanalysis and the interplay among reality, fantasy, and memory. Though he began writing and practicing psychoanalysis before or concurrently with the advent of the motion picture, many of Sigmund Freud's ideas as presented in the articles to be discussed draw many similarities between the nature of memory and the nature of the screen or projected image. The author's of the articles not written by Freud make arguments and assessments of his ideas in the modern age, particularly with the advent of many digital technologies and a more globalized age. The paper will elucidate the main points drawing parallels and connections among the ideas presented and the perspectives of memory and psychoanalysis.

"Screen Memories" is part of Freud's fundamental theories regarding childhood traumas, memory, and neurosis, with specific focus upon the realm of hysteria. (1899) Throughout this...

(1899) It is by primarily this concept that Freud explains the nature of hysteria and the manifestation of psychosis or neurosis in adults who have experience childhood traumas that often caused mental health problems when encountered as adults. (Freud, 1899,-Page 310) From the perspective of psychoanalysis, Freud elaborates, using case examples of his patients, the fallibility and malleability of memory as a number of his patients substitute fantasies as childhood memories, calling the forged memories "scenes" that the patients invent, believe, and embed as their own memories. (Freud, 1899,-Page 318)
In "A Note Upon the Mystic Writing Pad," Freud again compares memory and the nature of the unconscious to a sort of writing pad, palimpsest, or media technology. Readers should consider applying this framework to the 21st century, a highly globalized and technologically mediated period in human history, specifically in commerce, politics, and socialization. He sees the mind, memory and the unconscious as individual mechanisms that combine with others to create the apparatus of the mind. (Freud, 1925,-Page 116) In…