The default-mode, ego-functions and free-energy: a neurobiological account of Freudian ideas
Brain February 28, 2010 R. L. Carhart-Harris, K. J. Friston 580 citations
This article explores the notion that Freudian constructs may have neurobiological substrates. Specifically, we propose that Freud's descriptions of the primary and secondary processes are consistent with self-organized activity in hierarchical cortical systems and that his descriptions of the ego are consistent with the functions of the default-mode and its reciprocal exchanges with...