MEMORY IN THE SUBCONSCIOUS

If memory and object recognition can be relevant to the shadow definition that is "an imperfect and faint representation", then perhaps I can look at these concepts in terms of the subconscious mind. Surely dreams are shadows - where symbols appear in reference to thoughts and ideas that exist in the concsious stream.

I think it's interesting how we can only try to reinterpret what our unconscious mind has already interpreted. "A thought comes into the mind and when you remember it, you always remember the last recollection." - A friend. Details are lost and connections are made during the process of recollection. In this way, what we end up with is a representation of what was before that has been dissasembled and distorted, to be reassorted in a more sensible way.

Fruedian Theories and psychoanalysis in general, are outdated in modern psychology, although there are no new theories about sleep and the subconscious mind that have been developed. Cognitive studies in psychology are measurable and can be studied through testing, whereis subconsious thought pattern cannot, so is not considered a priority. Surrealist art stemmed predominantly from Frued's theories, which embraced the free thinking subconscious mind.

FREUDIAN THEORY OF DREAMS
Eugen Tarnow
NEURO-PSYCHOANALYSIS
2003, Volume 5, Number 2

Perceptions and thought from the day before the dream disturb the Unconscious. The Unconscious wants to express itself to the ego but is repressed by defense mechanisms until the time of dreaming. At the time of dreaming the defense mechanisms are lifted, leaving behind only a censor to scramble the Unconscious expressions. This censor accounts for the strangeness of dreams. The censor transformation is called “Dream Work”. By studying dreams and their connection to the reality of the individual dreamers, Freud divided the Dream Work into condensation, displacement, the transformation of thought into visual images, and secondary revision. Freud proposed that by interpreting dreams, i.e. by reversing the Dream Work transformation, one could reveal the Unconscious, an important source of human personality.