ABSTRACT
This chapter describes one of the major developments that has occurred, since Freud's death, in the branch of neuroscience out of which psychoanalysis arose. It provides a method by means of which psychoanalysis can be rejoined with neuroscience in a way that is compatible with Sigmund Freud's basic assumptions. Freud granted the recognition, and a brief correspondence ensued, which can still be studied in Luria's family archives in Moscow. During the following two years, Luria conducted extensive psychoanalytical research, published a large number of articles, monographs, and brief reports, and conducted clinical work in a local psychiatric hospital. However, the tide of political opinion soon turned against psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union, and by the early 1930s—fearing for his academic future, if not his life—Luria resigned from the Russian Psychoanalytical Society and abruptly ceased all psychoanalytic activities.
