Psychoanalysis and neuroscience
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https://doi.org/10.33898/rdp.v16i62.877Keywords:
neuroscience, psychoanalysis, self, Freud, LuriaAbstract
The great achievements in neuroscience have promoted in wide areas of society the idea that knowledge on how brain works has discredited and left as useless many psychological and analytical concepts and, among them, psychoanalysis. This idea has also been spread among some groups inside psychiatry and psychology from who better information would be expected. In this article it is proved that, against what is expected, in fact it happens to be absolutely the opposite. The historic origins of neuroscience are narrowly related to psychoanalysis through the figure of Luria, who founded the psychoanalytic society of Kazan, belonged to the psychoanalytic society of Russia and published many psychoanalytic articles in German magazines specialized on it. In this article several meeting points between the psychoanalytic theory and discoveries by neuroscience are exposed and it’s also pointed out that several of these last ones confirm psychoanalytic hypothesis and concepts.
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