Why I Am Not a Neuropsychoanalytic

Neuropsychoanalysis

Abstract

This article is devoted to a critical examination of neuropsychoanalysis as a project for the renewal of psychoanalysis. The author examines the context in which neuropsychoanalysis emerged, its promises of a radical reform of psychoanalysis, and the problems with these promises. The author then analyzes the solution to the "mind-body" problem proposed by neuropsychoanalysis. Finally, the last part of the paper deals with Mark Solms's latest book, summarizing his views to date. In conclusion, it is concluded that neuropsychoanalysis has, in its 20 years of existence, become yet another school within psychoanalysis. The arguments presented in the article continue a line of thought begun by the author earlier in his contribution "Conceptual Problems of Neuropsychoanalysis" (Uzlaner, 2020).