ABSTRACT
This chapter explores psychoanalysis and its cornerstone concept was studied as a scientific theory and examines in terms of a community and a cult. It examines the context of the inter-professional competition as follows: considering that psychoanalytic clinicians are reluctant to study critically the S.Freudian cornerstone concept of causative unconscious content, and the community possesses cult-like aspects, should one trust their thinking and methods? Restoration of the psychoanalytic cornerstone can be sought in a different direction from that of neuroscience, via philosophy. Freud called his ideas concerning the unconscious the cornerstone of psychoanalysis, and they set the logic of psychoanalytic thinking: psychic disorders slips of tongue are caused by repressed ideas located in the unconscious part of the mind. Freud-bashing the cult around Freud's legacy represents an equally personifying approach to science. Scientific disciplines often possess ideological undertones, and the argument "but psychoanalysis is too ideological to be a scientific discipline" does not sound like a strong one.
