Problems referring to psychoanalytical theories, in what concerns a fundamental revision of its concepts, beginning with the development and discoveries of modern Psychology, oblige a search in the psychoanalytic concept of unconsciousness for the possible cause of the impossibility of a true epistemological reformulation of its founding, which is demanded by this new knowledge of Psychology. Linking modern psychoanalytical authors with the cognitive theories, we attempt a criticism in the sense of clarifying the origins of such theoretical impasses and its possible solutions within a cognitive perspective.
Piaget, Jean; 1986-1980; Cognition; Intellectual development; Psychoanalytic theory; Psychoanalysis; Epistemology; Piaget, Jean; 1896-1980