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Where does that stop? I shall now end by saying a few words on the way I think Freud should be read. Freud has no special right to be considered as telling the truth more than his followers who may disagree with him. But in my opinion, Freud has considerable theoretical consistency, stronger than any other, even if this is now put to question. What I recommend is to study his wor k by trying to grasp this internal consistency more than by considering the isolated facts to which he drew attention. This to me is true rigor, instead of hastily trying to find impossible compromises between incompatible methods. For instance, affects in his work are mainly considered first in relationship with representations and then in connection with instinctual impulses and the unconscious ego. As far as I know, only Damasio seems to bother about the relationship of affects to representation. What psychoanalysts expect from their dialogue with neurobiologists is not an accumulation of references related to localization circuits or the effect of chemical substances, but help in understanding the general patterns of brain functioning. Not that it will

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Author

Joseph LeDoux

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

1999

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)