The Invention of Memory: a New View of the Brain

can accurately remember people, places, and things because images of them have been imprinted and permanently stored in our brains; and that though we may not be conscious of them, these images are the basis of recognition and hence of thought and action.&dquo; Further, the author points out that the myth perpetuates a view of the brain that drives the theoretical foci of contemporary neurology. Accordingly, the case studies of Freud on dreamwork, emotions, memory, depression, and the unconscious could have rendered a new paradigm in psychology; however, Freud, according to Rosenfield, did not break clear of localization of functions