ABSTRACT
There are a number of uncanny points of convergence between Freud's (1895) Project for a scientific psychology, Derrida's (1978a) reading of the Project, and recent connectionist theories of cognition in psychology. The similarities in their approach to cognition, memory, the trace, and psychical writing offer an opportunity for developing a critical, but productive, interrogation of contemporary cognitive psychology. Psychoanalysis is divorced from neurology, and an interpretive method is separated from a scientific one. It argues that neurology has not been fully incorporated into the narrative of a metaphorics of writing that Derrida traces across Freud's work. The irreducible relation between neurology and breaching that is formulated here allows neurology to be thought of as something other than the stable bedrock of reductionism. Neurology is again and again brought into play in the very same papers in which Derrida excavate writing.
