ABSTRACT
Whereas Lacan returned to the early Freud, Solms returned to the earliest Freud with his firm roots in neurology and natural science. In his Project, the focus was on drive and energy: an economic perspective that psychoanalysis has relinquished. A helicopter view of Solms’ trajectory is sketched. He, too, has a kind of project in which he adopts the clinical–anatomical method to study correlations between the mind and brain. He considers neurological patients not as broken objects but as disturbed subjects, and he listens. Consequently, he falsified the idea that dreams are the random and meaningless product of brain activity and restored the scientific prestige of Freud’s dream theory as the shibboleth of psychoanalysis. Thus, he has dealt with Grünbaum’s and Popper’s philosophy-of-science critique.
