SPHERE (Sciences, Philosophy, History), UMR 7219, CNRS/University Paris Diderot-Paris 7, Bâtiment Condorcet, Case 7093, 5, rue Thomas Mann, 75205 Paris cedex 13, France.
Conscious Cogn. 2012 Mar;21(1):562-72. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.01.003. Epub 2012 Jan 31.
Fechner remains virtually unknown for his psychological research on the unconscious. However, he was one of the most prominent theorists of unconscious cognition of the 19th century, in the context of the rise of scientific investigations on the unconscious in German psychology. In line with the models previously developed by Leibniz and Herbart, Fechner proposes an explanative system of unconscious phenomena based on a modular conception of the mind and on the idea of a functional dissociation between representational and attentional activity. For Fechner, the unconscious is a state of consciousness resulting from the isolation of representational activity from the rest of psychical life. Unconscious mental phenomena are unattended mental states that behave autonomously while remaining able to act on consciousness. This paper aims to revisit Fechner's contribution to the history of the unconscious, but also the theoretical significance of the Fechnerian unconscious vis-à-vis current research on the cognitive unconscious.
费希纳几乎不为大众所知，他的心理学研究主要集中在无意识领域。然而，他是 19 世纪无意识认知研究最杰出的理论家之一，当时德国心理学界兴起了对无意识的科学研究。费希纳沿袭了莱布尼茨和赫尔巴特之前提出的模型，基于心智的模块概念和表象与注意活动之间功能分离的观点，提出了无意识现象的解释系统。在费希纳看来，无意识是一种意识状态，源于表象活动与心理生活其他部分的隔离。无意识心理现象是未被注意的心理状态，它们在保持自主的同时仍然能够对意识产生作用。本文旨在重新审视费希纳对无意识历史的贡献，以及费希纳无意识理论相对于当前认知无意识研究的理论意义。
