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Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and their Perceptual Basis. By Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002, 368 pp., $42.00.
The Mind Doesn't Work that way: The Scope and Limit of Computational Psychology. By Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001, 144 pp., $14.95 paperback, $25.00 hardcover.
What is Called Thinking? By ; translated by J. Glenn Gray. New York: Harper Collins, 1976 (1951), 272 pp., $14.00.
Discourse On Thinking. ; translated by John M. Anderson and E. Hans Freund. New York: Harper & Row, 1972 (1966), 93 pp., $12.00 paperback.
Unshadowed Thought: Representation in Thought and Language. By Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000, 288 pp., $44.50.
These books deal with the general topic of thinking and representation, both conscious and unconscious, a topic crucial to our ideas about psychoanalytic theory and a topic on which we have some very definite opinions. These opinions have become convictions that are so much a part of psychoanalytic training, and therefore of our own way of thinking, that it is difficult to consider them erroneous or even to contemplate other ideas of the subject. The central concept to be examined here is that of psychic representation, which in our field has had a range of definitions, from “a more or less consistent reproduction within the mind of a perception of a meaningful thing or object” (Moore and Fine 1990, p. 166) to “a network of neurons activated in tandem…. [that] can become associated through experience, through