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This paper provides a psychoanalytic counterpoint to the cognitive neuroscience perspective on confabulation. It argues that the clinical phenomena of confabulatory states should be interpreted as both negative and positive symptoms (as both deficits of higher cognitive functions and releases of deeper, normally inhibited cognitive modes). The functional characteristics of some of these deeper cognitive modes, as revealed by confabulatory states, are explored briefly in this paper.