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[[Freud]] distinguished between "[[word-presentations]]" -- the product of the secondary processes of [[consciousness|conscious thought]] - and "[[thing-presentations]]" - the product of the primary processes of the [[unconscious]].
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These are very complicated ideas in Freud and he never explicitly spelt out what he meant by them.
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Freud distinguished between "word-presentations" -- the product of the secondary processes of conscious thought - and "thing-presentations" - the product of the primary processes of the unconscious.

These are very complicated ideas in Freud and he never explicitly spelt out what he meant by them.