ABSTRACT
The vicissitudes of psychoanalytic theory formation are outlined, concluding with the emergence of neuropsychoanalysis. The sharp, lingering theoretical divisions in psychoanalysis constitute an impediment to the contribution psychoanalysis can make to the contemporary understanding of human biopsychosocial processes. A unifying conceptual dimension might lie in the promise of a new field of inquiry – neuropsychoanalysis. Freud’s vision of a neurological underpinning to psychology (Project for a Scientific Psychology, 1885) is given new life with the promise of contemporary neurobiological research findings.
