ABSTRACT
The starting point of the four-level model is the cognitivist idea that conscious states are always the end-products of several neural and conscious processes. The clinical data around repression is that certain ideas or topics are systemically missing from the narration: the analysand does not mention certain ideas, topics, desires, feelings, and fears, that he or she presumably possesses. Behind an absence of ideas, repression, and defence mechanisms there are the three cornerstones of the four-level model: unconscious detections, unconscious neural algorithms, and selective non-attending. A cognitively-orientated reader does not long for further arguments in favour of the two-sphere view and the four-level model, and probably there are psychoanalytic folk that will not become convinced of any arguments that challenge the Freudian cornerstone. In the scope of cognitive neuroscience, the unconscious is, non-dramatically, just the brain and its unconscious detections and neural algorithms, but psychoanalysts talk about the mysteries of the unconscious.
