Stern and Bromberg
In recent psychoanalytic literature, there are two major figures in the theories of dissociation and dissociative phenomena: Donnel Stern and Phillip Bromberg, and their works are relevant to be discussed in this context. The current notion of dissociation proposed by them is characterized by their unique understanding of what is not conscious. Stern states: Freud accepted without reservation the idea that the mind―and, therefore, the unconscious―is composed of fully formed contents. (Stern, 2009, p.655.) Stern discusses that in traditional psychoanalysis the repression model assumes that there is one truth in the unconscious that corresponds to one objective reality. He calls this notion “correspondence theory” and proposes a different mechanism of the mind at play in dissociation.
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