Constructing a Mind : Routledge : 9781583917671 : 1583917675 : 04 May 2006 : Can the Protomental System provide a new foundation for psychoanalytic theory? Constructing a Mind draws on psychoanalytic theories of mind and recent developments in cognitive science to present the Protomental System, a new and original explanatory theory of the development of the human mind. This book aims to move psychoanalytic theory away from its origins in Freud's theory, towards a model which gives priority to cognition and memory. This, Antonio Imbasciati argues, will make possible a successful and productive integration of psychoanalysis with other areas of psychology. Subjects covered include: The mind as an information-processing systemConstructing the system: from fetus to baby, child, and finally adultThe caregiver relationship as a decoding system for information processingThe paranoid-schizoid metabolism of informationMemory of functions and memory traces of affectsInternal information gener