ABSTRACT
Contemporary science is steeped in evolutionary and neo-Darwinist thought and empirical evidence confirming its veracity continues to mount. Darwinian theory was involved with questions of purposiveness from the outset. According to Darwin's grandfather, the three driving forces are hunger, the search for security, and lust. Evolutionary psychology is the successor to post-Freudianism, particularly when each is portrayed in caricature form. A comparison with evolutionary psychology quickly reveals that it is closer to these Freudian ideas than to contemporary medical discourse. Both for Freud and for evolutionary psychology, consciousness is a peripheral phenomenon, and the majority of the governing processes occur outside of consciousness. Contemporary cognitive psychology and neuropsychology have meanwhile demonstrated this quite convincingly. The difference between the two somatic systems can explain the idea of conflict that lies at the heart of every psychopathology. The emphasis of clinical psychodiagnostics shifts to the conflict between the different representational constructions that can form the basis for psychopathology.
