Neuropsychoanalysis is a working discipline rather than a settled science

Evidence

Why, then, didn’t I subtitle this book “Freud and Neuropsychoanalysis”? It is important to underscore the fact that neuropsychoanalysis is not a constituted science but a working discipline, an experimental inflexion within contemporary neurology. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 474

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the status of neuropsychoanalysis as experimental rather than constituted science.
• XREF: Explains why this book is not merely a neuropsychoanalytic work — framing Malabou’s own intervention. — connects to: Psychoanalysis is only a temporary phase awaiting neurological confirmation — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 437; The neuronal-mental continuity thesis is a philosophical stance, not a scientific postulate — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 184; Joining psychoanalysis and neurology remains an unfinished project — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 443 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Joining psychoanalysis and neurology remains an unfinished project #corroborates (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 443
• Psychoanalysis disputes distract from its core epistemic value #expands (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 418
• The neuronal-mental continuity thesis is a philosophical stance, not a scientific postulate #corroborates (0.70) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 184