The Unconscious

Mark Solms is Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, President of the South African Psychoanalytical Association, Co-Chair of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society and Chair of the Research Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Simon E. Arnold, Dipl.-Psych., is research associate at the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt a.M. He studied psychology, literary studies, art history and philosophy in Konstanz, Paris and Beer Sheva. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber is Professor of Psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel, Germany, Head Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt/Main, Germany., training analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV) and Vice-Chair for Europe of the Research Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA).

Introduction The Unconscious – a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue: some introductory remarks 1."The Unsconsious" In psychoanalysis and neuroscience: An integrated approach to the cognitive unconscious Part I: Conceptual, historical and clinical studies 2. Unconscious Fantasy: An Attempt at Conceptual Integration 3. Reply to W. Bohleber and Colleagues’ Paper on Unconscious Phantasy 4. Reflections on Primitive Reparation, the Repetition Compulsion and the Unconscious Processing of Guilt Part II: Scientific Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Neuroscience 5. The Unconscious in Cognitive Science. A few suggestions for psychoanalysis 6. I am therefore I think 7. Struggling with unconscious, embodied memories in a third psychoanalysis with a traumatized patient recovered from severe poliomyelitis. A dialogue between Psychoanalysis and Embodied Cognitive Science Part III: Clinical Studies 8. The Unconscious and Trauma 9. Trauma, Dreams and Transformations in Psychoanalysis. Combining Clinical and Extra-Clinical Research in an EEG/fMRI Study 10. Non-verbal memories of trauma in early childhood: conscious or unconscious? Part IV: Conclusions 11. Concluding Remarks and Future Perspectives