A Neuro-Psychoanalytical Dialogue for Bridging Freud and the Neurosciences

176 Pages·2016·3.732 MB·English

by  Sigrid Weigel, Gerhard Scharbert (eds.)

Sigrid Weigel
Gerhard Scharbert E ditors
A Neuro-
Psychoanalytical
Dialogue for Bridging
Freud and the
Neurosciences
A Neuro-Psychoanalytical Dialogue for Bridging
Freud and the Neurosciences

Sigrid Weigel (cid:129) Gerhard Scharbert
Editors
A Neuro-Psychoanalytical
Dialogue for Bridging Freud
and the Neurosciences
Editors
Sigrid Weigel Gerhard Scharbert
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Institute for Cultural History and Theory
(ZfL) Humboldt University of Berlin
Berlin , Germany Berlin , Germany
Assistant Editor
Christine Kutschbach
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung
(ZfL)
Berlin , Germany
The conference preceding this publication, and its proceedings presented here were
supported by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF), Reference
Nrs. 01UG0712 and 01UG1412.
ISBN 978-3-319-17604-8 ISBN 978-3-319-17605-5 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17605-5
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Pref ace
The chapters of this book are partially comprised of the ongoing conversations
among an interdisciplinary group of scholars and researchers who collaboratively
investigate the changing, current perspectives on neuropsychoanalysis as well as the
historical and epistemological preconditions behind it. They are based on an
exchange between three different bodies of knowledge: p sychoanalysis , n eurosci-
ence , and cultural science (not to be mistaken for cultural studies).
The volume is further comprised of papers from three symposiums, the fi rst of
which, “Freud and Neurosciences. Investigating the Dialogue between
Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences,” was organized by the editors as well as
Christine Kirchhoff (Berlin). It took place at the C enter for Literary and Cultural
Research / Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL) in Berlin, 2010. This
symposium marked the beginning of a long-term collaboration supported by the
ZfL, members of the I nternational Neuropsychoanalysis Society (NPSA), and the
Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt/M. It was followed by two further symposiums,
“Empathy. A Neurobiological Capacity and Its Cultural and Conceptual History”
(Berlin 2013) and “‘As-if’—Figures of Imagination, Simulation and Transposition
in the Relation to the Self, Others and the Arts” (Villa Vigoni 2014). The authors of
this volume come from diverse backgrounds, including the fi elds of neuroscience,
neuropsychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and cultural science. Several of them
are psychoanalysts with training in neuroscience.
A Neuro-Psychoanalytical Dialogue for Bridging Freud and the Neurosciences
could not have been fi nished without the editorial help of Japhet Johnstone and
Christine Kutschbach (both ZfL, Berlin). To them, and everybody who supported
this project, I am very grateful.
Berlin, Germany Sigrid Weigel
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Contents
1 Introduction ............................................................................................. 1
Sigrid Weigel
Part I The Venture of Neuropsychoanalysis
2 What Is Neuropsychoanalysis? .............................................................. 13
Mark Solms and Oliver H. Turnbull
Part II Embodiment as Bridge Between Psychoanalysis
and Neuroscience
3 Enactments in Transference: Embodiment, Trauma
and Depression. What Have Psychoanalysis
and the Neurosciences to Offer to Each Other ..................................... 33
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber
4 Embodiment in Simulation Theory and Cultural Science,
with Remarks on the Coding-Problem of Neuroscience ...................... 47
Sigrid Weigel
Part III The Unconscious Before Freud and After
5 Signs and Souls: The Prehistory of Psychoanalytical Treatment
in Nineteenth- Century French Psychiatry ............................................ 75
Gerhard Scharbert
6 Dreams, Unconscious Fantasies and Epigenetics ................................. 91
Tamara Fischmann
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Part IV ReVisions of the Drive in Freud and Neuroscience
7 Beyond the Death Drive: Freud’s Engagement with Cell Biology
and the Reconceptualization of His Drive Theory ............................... 109
Sigrid Weigel
8 Drive and Love: Revisiting Freud’s Drive Theory ............................... 127
Yoram Yovell
9 The Island of Drive: Representations, Somatic States
and the Origin of Drive ........................................................................... 137
Pierre J. Magistretti and François Ansermet
Part V Concerns of Psychoanalytical Theory
10 Couch Potato: Some Remarks Concerning
the Body of Psychoanalysis .................................................................... 151
Ulrike Kadi
11 “The Medulla Oblongata Is a Very Serious
and Lovely Object.” A Comparison of Neuroscientific
and Psychoanalytical Theories ............................................................... 163
Edith Seifert
On the Authors ................................................................................................ 171
Contributors
François Ansermet Department of Psychiatry , Université de Genève , Genève ,
Switzerland
Tamara Fischmann Sigmund-Freud-Institut , Frankfurt am Main , Germany
Ulrike Kadi Universitätsklinik für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie ,
Medizinische Universität Wien , Wien , Austria
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber Sigmund-Freud-Institut , Frankfurt am Main ,
Germany
Pierre J. Magistretti Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Cellular Dynamics , École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-SV-BMI , Lausanne , Switzerland
Gerhard Scharbert I nstitut für Kulturwissenschaft, Philosophische Fakultät III,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin , Berlin , Germany
Edith Seifert Psychoanalytischer Salon Berlin , Berlin , Germany
Mark Solms Department of Psychology , University of Cape Town , Cape Town ,
South Africa
Oliver H. Turnbull School of Psychology , Bangor University , Bangor , UK
Sigrid Weigel Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin , Berlin , Germany
Yoram Yovell The Institute for the Study of Affective Neuroscience (ISAN) ,
University of Haifa , Haifa , Israel
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