ABSTRACT
Nonconsciousness enables the economy of ordinary low-level contingency planning for most activities. In short, Olds believes that consciousness provides feedback through input that allows for various kinds of real-time correction and adjustment of memory. H. Shevrin and colleagues' interest is in differentiating the conscious system from Sigmund Freud's dynamic unconscious system. The unconscious thus begins as a mental set associated with a shift in cognitive mode, yet still guided by what Freud called the pleasure principle. F. M. Levin and C. Trevarthen contend that the knowledge M. I. Posner and colleagues are accumulating about the executive control network (ECN) can provide a conceptual basis for understanding consciousness and exploiting in particular attentional shifts within clinical psychoanalysis. Posner and M. K. Rothbart show how ECN develops in relation to self regulation of emotion and then gets involved in cognitive regulation in the third year of life.
