ABSTRACT
The great progress in medicine around psychosomatic disorders demonstrates that the interrelations between soma and the psyche are rich, complex and interesting in terms of the conception developed by psychoanalysts of psychical causality. When a new theorisation of the psyche is constructed, on foundations purged of any relation to biology, then this is a psychologism unimpeded by any points of reference other than those of meaning and the relation to the other. What is put forward as only a minor correction screens the desire to bring about a transformation giving rise to a new kind of psychoanalysis. Any reference to a biological causality produces, among psychoanalysts, an effect of intimidation and revulsion. Energy is well known that this is the cause of problems in post-Freudian psychoanalysis, and also that biologists have contested the validity of this concept.
