This document discusses theories of psychology and the unconscious mind from early German idealists through modern theories of attachment, affect regulation, and the role of caregivers in child development. It focuses on the work of Freud, Jung, Rogers, and Bowlby/Ainsworth in developing models of the unconscious, object relations, attachment styles, and the neurobiology of emotion regulation developing through interactions with caregivers. Later sections discuss the psychoid archetype and proposals linking consciousness and the brain at the quantum level.
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1. psychology of the creative self
Self and other: attachments,
affect regulation, neuroscience,
virtues and community
derek dey 2022
2. the unconscious
Period of German idealists
Fichte, Schelling, Carus, Hartmann, Fechner, Goethe, Wundt
transcendent idealism and science
monism Carl Gustav Carus 1789-1869
Schelling - Naturphilosophie
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Districts of the soul -
the psychology of the unconscious 1831
structure of psyche functions and qualities
unconscious
absolute
unconscious
biological unindividuated
interior senses
relative
unconscious
sleep or buffer partly individuated
conscious
empirical
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3. object relations and archetypes
Why Freud?
Origins of contemporary psychology
clear the ground-synthesize
object relations to affect regulation
4. Freuds practising period
two mothers
two fathers
Oeidpal theory
psychosexual
stages
Libido
Cathexis
15. a three stage hierarchy
amygdala < > cingulate < > hemispheres < > interactivity
(Develops in healthy relation to mother primarily, then father and culture
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16. the gaze transaction / monophosphate
shunt
critical periods of RNA synthesis
Mother as regulator / imprinting
bioregulation-synchrony
catecholamines
dopaminergic - neurochemical responses
Cyclic AMP - RNA protein transcription
Visual cortex online @ 5 months
neurogenesis-synaptogenesis
17. developmental stages and behaviors
amygdala -visual cortex/hatching - instinctual / (5 to 9 months)
facial recognition / visual cortex: The infant begins to differentiate between itself and its
mother. Ontogenesis
cingulate / practicing - (9 to 16 months): The infant begins to explore,
crawling, then walking freely, becoming more independent of its mother. Yet is still one with its
mother.
hemispheres / raproachment -(15 months and beyond): The young child
remains close to his mother, but begins to differentiate itself from his mother. Psychic separateness from
his mother emerges along with self-regulation.
18. cingulate-9 months
Online by 9 months
Regulates emotional States
Facilitates memory
Links intellect (cerebral cortex)
with unconscious (brain stem)
Amygdala - hippocampus - cingulate gyrus
exploration or shame
Conscious choices
Love
Control of anger
19. cortex and right emotional
the unconscious
Emotional
and larger hemisphere
21. A word about fathers
A peek at the neural biology of emotion regulation shows that, even at young
ages, emotion dysregulation inhibits the prefrontal cortex and activates basal
areas of the brain (Blair, 2002). Physiologically, emotion dysregulation will
interfere with higher order reasoning.
Infant at two seeks out father
Supports gender differentiation
more activity is seen in the dorsal medial prefrontal and posterior cingulate areas of male brains
Cognitive fontal hierarchies and higher order reasoning
The orbitofrontal and somatosensory cortex
22. the psychoid archetype
Jung and Pauli - letters
A neuron to
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eld consciousness proposal
Brain mind and the hard problem
Followed by John Eccles, Penrose and Hameroff