A Psychological “How-Possibly” Model of Repression

Dr Beate Krickel, PhD

Saturday, 14 December
11 a.m. (EST- Eastern USA)

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This webinar will be approximately two hours long.

In this talk, I develop a psychological “how-possibly” model of repression – the hybrid model of repression. This model combines the advantages while avoiding the problems of two types of models of repression—the higher-order model and the separation model—that have been discussed and defended by different authors and that both have their origin in Freud. This “how-possibly” model may then set the stage for further empirical research, which can form the basis for a “how-actually” model in the longer run.

Suggested reading (Open access)

Krickel, B. (2024). A psychological “how-possibly” model of repression. Neuropsychoanalysis, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2024.2374237

Bio
Beate Krickel is Professor for Philosophy of Cognition at Technical University Berlin, Germany. Before that, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher, principal investigator, and scientific coordinator at the DFG-Research Training Group Situated Cognition at Ruhr University Bochum. She was lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin, where she obtained her PhD, and at Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster. Her research focuses on the philosophy of cognitive neuroscience and psychology, especially mechanistic explanation, the explanatory role of unconscious mental processes, and cognitive ontology. She has published her work in journals such as the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, Erkenntnis, Mind and Language, Synthese, and Mind and Machines. In 2018, she published the monograph The Mechanical World.

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