ABSTRACT
Through an analysis of Mark Solms’ work, I reveal the problem of trying to combine psychoanalysis and neuroscience. Since I argue that psychoanalysis offers us the best way to understand what makes us human, it is important to look at the ways people from within the field repress its most radical insights. It will be my argument that there is a common misunderstanding of reason, consciousness, drives, language, transference, and free association, and if we do not clarify these confusions, we will not be able to see how psychoanalysis differs from other approaches in its response to the quest of defining our common humanity.
