ABSTRACT
The epilogue ties together the old and the new with a view to future possibilities. Through the prism of neuroscience, a topic peppered throughout the book, Freud’s Project for a Scientific Psychology is recalled in the context of new developments wherein the taking back of projections may become known through the study of mirror neurons and the amygdala, a part of the brain that organizes how we view what we have gleaned from relationships with others.
As it turns out, the courtship between psychoanalysis and neuroscience has been renewed, which may someday make it possible to know with certainty that one’s thoughts are not those of another. This could decrease or alleviate projective processes that plague so many people while making mentalization a real possibility.
