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The information-processing approach has offered new perspectives on many issues in human psychology, such as language, memory, and comprehension (Lindsay and Norman, 1972; Anderson and Bower, 1973; Loftus and Loftus, 1976; Rumelhart, 1977). The basic analogy between information processing and human functions should be construed on the level of metapsychology, whose domain, according to Pribram and Gill (1976), should now be a “biological cognitive control theory” (p. 14). As noted by Rosenblatt and Thickstun (1977), Freud himself admitted the fundamental possibility of reinterpreting the basic corpus of psychoanalytic observations by means of a