ABSTRACT
The area of neurology most relevant to psychoanalysis is that of symbolic behavior involving organism-environmental relationships and the represen tation of states and events within and without the body. The disciplines have in common the study of memory, cognition, and perception, and share a lexicon that includes such terms as consciousness, attention, symboliza tion, and adaptation. Each discipline erects a theoretical model through which the physical-chemical processes of the brain are translated into clini cal phenomena. In both orientations one deals with abnormal behavior from which tacit or explicit assumptions of normal behavior are made. Both psychoanalysis and neurology are concerned with the effects of stress and deprivation, as in the loss of need-satisfying objects and delay of gratifica tion, on the one hand, and modes of adaptation to, and compensation for, diminished capacity, on the other.
