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    Supports→The claim that I can become conscious of each of my representations is likely false

    Kant's own unity of apperception requires that representations be potentially attributable to a single 'I think', but repressed content resists this attribution even under therapeutic effort.

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    Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
    Representations(as used in epistemology and philosophy of mind)
    Mental images, ideas, or thoughts that stand in for things in the world—essentially, how your mind depicts or understands reality.
    Repressed content(as psychological material that resists being part of conscious experience)
    Memories, thoughts, or feelings that your mind has unconsciously pushed down or hidden away, usually because they're painful or disturbing.
    Therapeutic effort(as attempts to make repressed content conscious)
    The deliberate work done in therapy (like psychoanalysis) to bring hidden or unconscious material into awareness so it can be processed.

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    attributable(as used in ethics when discussing moral responsibility)
    Able to be correctly assigned or credited to someone as their responsibility or doing.
    unity of apperception(Kant)
    The necessary unity of self-consciousness achieved through the action of judging.

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