Mc Laughlin J T
Psychoanal Q. 1978;47(2):237-66.
Increasing knowledge of human cerebral hemispheric specialization suggests a relationship between the different formal modes of thinking attributed to the two hemispheres and those psychoanalysis has traditionally assigned to primary (similar to recessive hemispheric) and secondary (similar to dominant hemispheric) processes. The fact of a lifelong capability at the neurophysiological level for coequal, simultaneous registration and organization of experience in these different cognitive modes allows primary process to be conceptualized in developmental terms. As the first organizing mode of infantile development, it shapes the primitive content of the dynamic unconscious. Thereafter, it can be viewed as coexistent and commingled with secondary process in dynamic tension, complementarity, and developing complexity. Observations from normal behavior, current research, and the functioning of the psychoanalyst support this thesis and reinforce an emerging viewpoint in contemporary psychoanalysis that primary processes are not confined to archaic levels but are open to growth and developmental integration into the complete range of ego functions.
对人类大脑半球专门化的了解日益增多，这表明归因于两个半球的不同形式思维模式与精神分析传统上归为初级（类似于隐性半球）和次级（类似于显性半球）过程的思维模式之间存在某种关系。在神经生理层面上，人一生都有能力以同等、同时的方式记录和组织这些不同认知模式下的经验，这一事实使得初级过程能够从发展的角度进行概念化。作为婴儿期发展的第一种组织模式，它塑造了动态无意识的原始内容。此后，它可以被视为与次级过程共存，并在动态张力、互补性和不断发展的复杂性中相互交融。来自正常行为、当前研究以及精神分析师功能的观察结果支持了这一论点，并强化了当代精神分析中一种新出现的观点，即初级过程并不局限于古老层面，而是能够发展并整合到自我功能的整个范围中。
