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 [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=7383 or send a blank email to leave-7383-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
