ABSTRACT
Extracts from a lengthy paper, reviewing the work of the neurobiologist Kurt Goldstein. It was written at the invitation of the editors of Imago and was addressed to psychoanalysts. Foulkes deals with one of the most important sources of his thinking; apart from discussing Goldstein’s published work, he also draws on his personal experience during the two years between 1926 and 1928 when he was Goldstein’s assistant at the Neurological Institute in Frankfurt. Taking for granted that a future psychoanalyst needed experience in neurology, Foulkes had deliberately chosen to work with Goldstein, whose approach he found stimulating and consonant with his own ideas.
