ABSTRACT
In the terminology of neuroscience, the origins of interoceptive active inference are always, by necessity, social, and thus, core subjective feelings such as hunger and satiation, pain and relief and cold or warmth have actually social origins. This chapter discusses the classic neuropsychoanalytic insights of Kaplan-Solms and Solms about the role of the right hemisphere in the realistic appreciation of the self. The main thesis of Kaplan-Solms and Solms was that such lesions can result in spatial integration deficits, which in turn undermine the cognitive foundations of the developmentally learned distinction between self and other. Trained in both the Kaplan-Solms and Solms neuropsychoanalytic tradition and mainstream neurocognitive approaches, the chapter aims to revisit Kaplan-Solms and Solms’ hypotheses and expand their interdisciplinary efforts in the light of more developments and new findings.
