Best Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis

I want to examine briefly what psychoanalysis has made of the nonconsciously processed aspects of the new memory typology.

Psychoanalysis has tended to lump together that version of the new memory typography which regards implicit memory as being the same as, and confined to, procedural memory, rather than regarding procedural memory as a category of implicit memory along with priming and emotional memory. For example, Ross  confirms my impression when he writes: “When all is said and done, for the time being, I will tend to stick to our current psychoanalytical convention and use the term ‘procedural’ to refer to implicit memory even though some cognitive scientists will see this as overinclusive.” Other authors, for example Fonagy , Levin , and Target , refer to “procedural or implicit memory” as if they were interchangeable. Fonagy goes some way towards explaining why he regards them this way in a footnote where he writes: “from the therapeutic perspective, awareness of an active and passive mode of remembering should suffice.” Though the terminology in psychoanalysis is much less important than the ideas conveyed, I regard this interchangeability as a confusion of species with genus.