ABSTRACT
Analysts who try to maintain a scientific posture are used to self-criticism, a seminal factor in scientists. No experienced analyst would ever think that it would be impossible to describe mental functioning in a still more precise way. Both psychoanalysis and physics discovered that it is impossible for the observer to be axiologically neutral, with no disparaging of “observation-in-itself”. Both disciplines improved not only the concept but also the precision of observation, when they knew more about its pitfalls. Francesca Bion regarded psychoanalysis as a thought waiting for its thinker, until Sigmund Freud came to think it. Freud illuminated some psychic functions of the central nervous system; neurologists and self-styled neuroscientists are not against the conception that the unconscious system is part of the central nervous system, and increasingly accept it.
