ABSTRACT
The word 'psychology' arose from the need to think the soul in response to the threatened unveiling of man by biology. Psychology was to describe "the uniformities of succession, the laws, whether ultimate or derivative, according to which one mental state succeeds another; is caused by, or at least, is caused to follow, another". The concept of an autonomous mental architecture is required as a foundation for any ethics of subjective accountability. The social paradigm imprisons the subject in the same two fates: either everything is solvable through education and training, or the inescapable victims of liberal capitalism, meritocracy, the rat race and increasing egoism. Clinical listening is a methodology specific to psychology that can yield the materials for a conceptual framework that is coherent at the subject level. Among the clinical theories which share this epistemology of the subject, there is psychoanalysis. Biology and psychoanalysis, neuroscience and psychoanalysis, especially intersect in the domain called neuropsychoanalysis.
