Book Review: The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: On Lacan and Freud

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Bazan A. Detandt S. (2013). On the physiology of jouissance: Interpreting the mesolimbic dopaminergic reward functions from a psychoanalytic perspective. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 709. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00709

Dall’Aglio J. (2024a). A Lacanian neuropsychoanalysis: Consciousness enjoying uncertainty. Palgrave Macmillan.

Dall’Aglio J. (2024b). A transcendental materialist frame for neuropsychoanalysis: Rethinking dual-aspect monism. Neuropsychoanalysis, 26(2), 175–189. doi:10.1080/15294145.2024.2402287

Dall’Aglio J. (2025). On a question prior to treating functional neurological symptoms. Neuropsychoanalysis, 27(1), 61–64. doi:10.1080/15294145.2025.2494218

Johnston A. (2019). Prolegomena to any future materialism, Vol. 2: A weak nature alone. Northwestern University Press.

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Kaplan-Solms K. Solms M. (2002). Clinical studies in neuro-psychoanalysis revisited: Introduction to a depth neuropsychology (2nd ed.). Karnac.

Lacan J. (1949). The mirror stage as formative of the I function as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. In Lacan J. ( Fink B. , Trans.) Écrits: The first complete edition in English (pp. 74–81). Norton.

Panksepp J. (1998). Affective neuroscience: The foundations of human and animal emotions. Oxford University Press.

Robinson T. Berridge K. (2025). The incentive-sensitization theory of addiction 30 years on. Annual Review of Psychology, 76, 29–58. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-011624-024031

Solms M. (1997). What is consciousness? Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 45(3), 681–703. doi:10.1177/00030651970450031201

Solms M. L. (2018). The neurobiological underpinnings of psychoanalytic theory and therapy. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 294. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00294

Solms M. (2025). “Function” in functional neurological disorders: The common ground of neuroscience and psychoanalysis. Neuropsychoanalysis, 27(1), 5–18. doi:10.1080/15294145.2025.2472340

Verhaeghe P. (2004). On being normal and other disorders: A manual for clinical psychodiagnostics ( Jottkandt S. , Trans.). Other Press.