ABSTRACT
Psychology and psychoanalysis are today faced with two tasks. The first is to live up to Freud’s original program of deciphering the basic, biologicallybased structure of the human mind. As Eric Kandel (2012) has shown convincingly, Freud is in many ways the founder of today’s vast undertaking of the evolutionary cognitive neurosciences – the attempt to decipher the biological architecture that underlies our psyche. If the metaphor may be allowed, this is research into biological hardware and the basic operating system with which we are born.
