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Precis: In the previous chapter we considered the lead articles in the inaugural issue of the journal Neuro-Psychoanalysis (NP), the ones by Mark Solms and Edward Nersessian, and by Jaak Panksepp. This chapter comments on the commentaries by those listed in the title above. Each of these individuals reacts personally and creatively, clarifying what is salient for himself. By examining their commentaries we can better appreciate their thinking on NP, and the nature of the ongoing debate between how best to integrate neuroscience and psychoanalysis, or even, whether they see this as a desirable goal. We need to be careful, however, because serious scholars, out of their intensity to calibrate their own opinions and the opinions of others, and meet complex philosophical requirements within their disciplines, on sound unfriendly to “outsiders”. I believe this happens not because they are so much unfriendly as intense, which can be difficult for others to deal with. I hope the reader also gives me the benefit of the doubt when I take what may 78appear to be too strong a position against one or another commentator in what follows, out of my own intensity to at least find good questions, if not yet good answers. |
