ABSTRACT
Psychoanalytic science, as psychoanalysis soon liked to define itself, appeared as deeply and essentially different from all the other sciences, psychological and otherwise. Infant research, in its successful association between attachment theory, psychoanalysis and experimental psychology, is successfully integrating psychoanalysis with cognitive science in the light of neurosciences. The controversy against psychoanalysis became superimposed in the soul of psychoanalysts with the persecution of the Jews, as though it were the persecution of a science because it was different. This had its effects on the soul of psychoanalysts and from on the soul of their institutions, in producing the isolationism of psychoanalysts, if not their latent aversion for the other sciences of the mind, ignoring their relative progress. Even though with the reciprocal hesitations of prejudices and the reciprocal cultural scotomata, cognitive sciences and psychoanalysis began to grow closer to one another from the 1970s and 1980s onwards, albeit with suspicion and caution.
