Towards an integration of psychoanalysis and the neurosciences. Part 2: Syndrome analysis of psychic functions

This paper considers the current relationship between psychoanalysis and ne uroscience. In this second part of the pager, it is argued that development s in this school of neurology since Freud's death, specifically the work of Aleksandr Lurija, have made it possible for fruitful contact between psych oanalysis and neuroscience to be re-established, on a sound clinical-scient ific basis. The compatibility between Freud's conceptualisation of mental d ynamics and that of modern dynamic neuropsychology is illustrated through a n example: The neurological organisation of dreaming, which is the paradigm atic mental function of psychoanalysis.