Parent symbolism make it easy to guess at their hidden leaning. What else could be the meaning of the fear of burglars, snakes, wild animals, and thunderstorms , if not the feminine fear of overwhelming forces that can vanquish, penetrate and destroy?' What else indeed??if, that is, you think along Freudian lines. If, however, you don't, it is readily apparent that burglars, snakes, wild animal...

In recent years the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has seen a renew interest on the analysis of nonfactual, emotional discourse characterized by the presence of affective language and sentiments, and charged with subjectivity. One area which has not been properly investigated, however, is that of natural language processing in the field of psychology and more specifically to the ana...

FULGENCIO, Leopoldo. Kantian foundations of Freudian Psychoanalysis and the place of metapsychology in the development of psychoanalysis. Psicol. USP [online]. 2007, vol.18, n.1, pp. 37-56. ISSN 0103-6564. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-65642007000100003. This study intends to show that Freud’s references to Kant do not refer to specifi c points or themes, but that Freud constructed psychoanal...

Long-term potentiation (LTP) of synaptic transmission is considered a reliable cellular model of several forms of learning and memory. Described for the first time in 1973, this synaptic phenomenon consists in the enduring facilitation of the communication between two neurons in response to the sustained activation of the synapses by which they are interconnected. In a book of 1895 entitled Pro...

of its argumentative reconstruction of Freud's writings, in the form of a set of well-defined scientific hypotheses. Grunbaum provides a useful precis of his book at the outset, and his verdict on psychoanalysis' claim to scientific truth is negative. Hopkins and Cioffi take issue with Grunbaum, but for opposing reasons. Hopkins argues carefully and in detail that psychoanalytic thought stands ...