Editing Immaculate perception (section)

== Applications ==
An example of the immaculate perception principle is [[Sigmund Freud]]'s [[Mental representation|theory of mental representation]], or what some{{Who|date=June 2021}} also refer to "copy theory of perception".<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last1=Dorpat|first1=Theo L.|title=Clinical Interaction and the Analysis of Meaning: A New Psychoanalytic Theory|last2=Miller|first2=Michael L.|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=978-0881631463|location=Oxon|pages=6}}</ref> He proposed that perception, which he often used interchangeably with "external reality",<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schimek|first=Jean-Georges|title=Memory, Myth, and Seduction: Unconscious Fantasy and the Interpretive Process|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2011|isbn=978-1-135-19189-4|pages=142}}</ref> is sensory-given and immediately known to the subject;<ref name=":2" /> therefore, it essentially involves the passive and temporary registration of an object.<ref name=":2" /> Nietzsche criticized this idea of "pure perception" by arguing that human perceptions are not mere copies of the images on the retinas.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last1=Nesselroade|first1=K. Paul Jr.|title=Statistical Applications for the Behavioral and Social Sciences|last2=Grimm|first2=Laurence G.|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2018|isbn=978-1-119-35539-7|location=Hoboken, NJ|pages=247|language=en}}</ref> He maintained that perception is not clean or untainted by the object of perception.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Germain|first=Gil|title=Thinking about Technology: How the Technological Mind Misreads Reality|publisher=Lexington Books|year=2017|isbn=978-1-4985-4953-0|location=Lanham, MD|pages=59}}</ref> People "actively" construct perceived information<ref name=":3" /> as sensory modalities select and tend to simplify phenomena so that they merely serve one's interest and need.<ref name=":1" />{{According to whom|date=June 2021}}