Neuropsychoanalysis re-finds and refines psychoanalysis

摘要

The pages of Neuropsychoanalysis have witnessed numerous challenges to Freudian propositions, as well as rediscoveries of un- or under-appreciated insights. One of these surely is the role of hallucinatory wish fulfillment in perception. In the first issue of our journal, Barry Opatow (1999) portrayed this proposition as fundamental to psychoanalytic theory. Subsequently, Mark Solms (2013), in a footnote in his "Conscious Id" paper, cited the work of Jan Dirk Blom (2015) documenting the now well-accepted position that all our percepts are "hallucinatory" in nature. And then Schon-bachler et al integrated it all in their paper on "wish and wishing" (2016).