A Neuro-Psychoanalytical Dialogue for Bridging Freud and the Neurosciences

Introduction.- PART I: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND NEUROSCIENCES: APPROACHES AND OPEN QUESTIONS.- Chapter 1: What is Neuropsychoanalysis? Mark Solms and Oliver Turnbull.- Chapter 2: Embodied Simulation and the Coding-Problem of Simulation Theory. Inventions from Cultural Sciences; Sigrid Weigel.- Chapter 3: "The medulla oblongata is a very serious and beautiful object." A Comparison of Neuroscientific and Psychoanalytical Theories; Edith Seifert.- PART II: EMBODYMENT.- Chapter 4: Enactments in Transference: Embodiment, Trauma and Depression. What Psychoanalysis has to Offer to Neurosciences; Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber.- Chapter 5: Couch Potato: Some Remarks Concerning the Body of Psychoanalysis; Ulrike Kadi.- PART III: THE MEANING OF THE UNCONSCIOUS.- Chapter 6: Dreams, Unconscious Fantasies and Epigenetics; Tamara Fischmann.- Chapter 7: Signs and Soul. French Psychiatry in the 19th Century and the Emergence of Psychodynamics; Gerhard Scharbert.- PART IV: REVISIONS OF THE DRIVE.- Chapter 8: Beyond the Death Drive. Freud's Concept of 'Life' at the Threshold of Sciences and Culture; Sigrid Weigel.- Chapter 9: Drive and Love: Revisiting Freud's Drive Theory; Yoram Yovell.- Chapter 10: The Island of Drive. Representations, Somatic States and the Origin of Drive; François Ansermet and Pierre Magistretti.- Bibliography.