People solve rebuses unwittingly—Both forward and backward: Empirical evidence for the mental effectiveness of the signifier
IntroductionFreud proposed that names of clinically salient objects or situations, such as for example a beetle (Käfer) in Mr. E’s panic attack, refer through their phonological word form, and not through their meaning, to etiologically important events—here, “Que faire?” which summarizes the indeci...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2023-02-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
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| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2022.965183/full |