ABSTRACT
Kinet discusses the gap and controversy between the natural sciences and the humanities, between nomothetic and ideographic analysis, the objective and the subjective, explaining and understanding. What kind of science is psychoanalysis? Somewhat provocatively, he compares it to science fiction. A first excursion into Lacanian thought about the real, the imaginary and the symbolic elucidates the matter. Hostility towards the neurosciences is criticised and analysed. Current opinions ruling the psychiatric discipline (at risk of losing its mind) are examined. What is universal, and what makes us unique? Isn’t it foremost the unconscious as the discourse of the big Other that inhabits us unknowingly? We are somehow like libraries. Natural and cultural history are juxtaposed, and another preview of the book’s endeavour is launched.
