Early Freud considered but rejected the objection that doctors were implanting false memories, saying he had not succeeded in forcing expected scenes onto patients.
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False Memory
Early Freud considered but rejected the objection that doctors were implanting false memories, saying he had not succeeded in forcing expected scenes onto patients.
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Dream analysis is described as a mind-control technique because dreams are ambiguous enough for the analyst to implant suggestions and false memories.
History is defined as the false memory of a nation-state, implanting identity with strangers who share no concrete local life.
History is defined as the false memory of a nation-state: a school-implanted memory that replaces local identity with national identity.
Jiang reads early Freud as careful rather than dogmatic: Freud considered the false-memory objection but argued he had not been able to force patients into reliving scenes with convincing affect.
Jiang presents early Freud as a nuanced scientist who considered false-memory suggestion but concluded that repeated patient testimony supported real trauma.
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"It is less easy to refute the idea that the doctor forces a reminiscence of this word on the patient, that he influences him..."
"So one major objection is, is it possible you are implanting false memories in your patient? And what he's saying is, okay, well, I..."
"...what I saw, right? But it's dreams that you can implant false memories, that you can make suggestions, you can hypnotize that person, okay?..."
"I think everyone who occupies himself with dreams will recognize as a very common phenomenon the fact that a dream will give proof of..."
"Okay, so do you understand? So when the person is talking about his dream, you can now make suggestions. That person will believe whatever..."
"...designed to do. School is designed to implant in you a false memory of a nation state, okay?"
"That's what history is. History is the false memory of a nation state. And that's why you're all forced to go to school, okay?"
"All right. So, another question is, okay, if schools are designed to brainwash you, what are they brainwashing you in? Well, they're designed to..."
"...designed to do. School is designed to implant in you a false memory of a nation state. Okay? That's what history is. History is..."
"there are one or more occurrences of premature experience, occurrences which belong to the earliest years of childhood, okay? There are a whole number..."
"...there are different possibilities. It's possible that he himself is suggesting false memories to his patients. And he says, this is possible, but I..."
"And before, this was not open to the public, and no one knew about these letters. But Jeffrey Masson spent years going over the..."
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