#502 - Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing: A Dialogue with Mark Solms

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Mark Solms on Freud and the curative power of psychoanalysis. They discuss how he edited the complete psychological works of Freud, translation differences, and Lacan on Freud. They talk about how Freud developed his theory, subjective experiences vs. consciousness, Freud’s topographical model, neuroscience rediscovering Freud, Friston’s free energy principle, Freud’s drives and Panksepp’s drives, sex, pleasure, and libido, psychoanalysis as curative, and many more topics.

Mark Solms is a neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst. He holds the chair of neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town in South...