The resulting being (with my brain and your mental contents) would be mentally as you were before, and not as I was.
Locke's exhaustive survey of mental contents is useful, if elaborate.
Mental contents hidden from view (or suppressed) during normal waking consciousness come to the fore: emotions, memories, wishes and fears.
Often involving sexual or aggressive urges or painful childhood memories, these unwanted mental contents are pushed into the unconscious mind.
These mental contents may at some time be pushed out of conscious awareness but remain actively held in the unconscious.
A theory, like phrenology, that argued, with scientific evidence, that mental contents are innate was a theory consistent with the belief in a divine creator.
These repressed mental contents are typically sexual or aggressive urges or painful memories of an emotional loss or an unsatisfied longing dating from childhood.
The rich portrayals of the stream of consciousness delivered by modernist novelists, most famously in Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of James Joyce's Ulysses, tend to portray mental contents as bits of flotsam swept along by a greater force.
Her mental contents were restricted to tactile memories of the small number of things she could touch with her fingers, and to what James called "the pallidest verbal substitutes"—that is, written words.
Her mental contents were restricted to tactile memories of the small number of things she could touch with her fingers, and to what James called "the pallidest verbal substitutes" — that is, written words.
Through reaction formation, projection, regression, sublimation, rationalization, and other defense mechanisms, some component of the unwelcome mental contents can emerge into consciousness in a disguised or attenuated form, thus providing partial relief to the individual.
