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The most fundamental obstacle encountered in the study of the mind and the mental is that there is no consensus on what the words mean and to which entities they refer. The conflict between the psychoanalytic and cognitive views concerning the unconscious has surely something to do with this fundamental problem, and so it is appropriate to take a look at the historical background of mental terms. Comparison of psychoanalysis and the cognitive orientation reveals certain general differences that are similar to those between Plato and Aristotle: what is common to Plato and psychoanalysis is motivation and certain "mentalism", and to cognitivists and Aristotle are reason and intellect. For Descartes, the criterion for "mentalness" was the capability to doubt one's own existence, and the unconscious does not possess that capability. Two views of the unconscious were prevalent in the era of romanticism, namely: dipsychism and polypsychism. For Freud, the mental essence of the unconscious was the cornerstone of psychoanalysis.
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