Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Up and Comming Projects!

I have not posted any blogs as of late because I have been terribly busy with my college course-work, but I have been developing some essays that I will soon post. These essays will concern how modern neuroscience corroborates with Freud's psychoanalytic theories. The main question that I will continue asking is: Is modern neuroscience beginning to prove Freud's theories, or is it dismantling Freud; showing his theories to be ancient, and showing Freud himself to be a old dinosaur?

I will be seeking answers from world renowned neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, and psychoanalysts. The following are some of the lectures that I will be critically examining. It must be kept in mind that these lectures are not theory driven, but are based off the findings of modern-day neuroscience, which allows us to see how the brain, and the mind, actually function.

Mark Solms: Freud Today
Mark Solms: What is Repression?
V. Ramachandran: Anosognosia: The interface between neurology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis

I encourage all readers to watch and/or listen to these lectures, which can be found here
http://www.neuro-psa.org.uk/npsa/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=62 or search for them on www.veoh.com

My essays will be on these lectures, which, I believe, are some the most imporant lectures in the contemporary world of psychology, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience.