ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on visual imagery. It elaborates a primer of psychoanalytic technique that is form, not content oriented and that captures the absolute essence of the psychoanalytic praxis. The chapter suggests that the developments in neuroscience offer a new perspective on the verbal-visual dichotomy. The dream of a neurobiological vindication of psychoanalytic theory goes back to Freud's Project, his famous unfinished magnum opus. Freud began this work in 1895, in a state of great excitement. He wrote to Fliess on October 20, 1895, [T]he barriers suddenly lifted, the veils dropped, and it was possible to see from the details of neurosis all the way to the very conditioning of consciousness. Advanced neuro technologies and changing cultural emphases have led to an immense burgeoning literature in what Schore calls "socioaffective ontogeny—neurobiology, behavioral neurology, evolutionary biology, sociobiology, social psychology, developmental psychology, developmental psychoanalysis, and infant psychiatry".
