Psychoanalytic Discoveries

Abstract

The popular and professional image that most people have of Sigmund Freud—at least at this point in history is definitely not that of a somatic psychologist and far from that of a bodymind therapist. But this assessment neglects both the extent to which Freud’s methods subvert the epistcmic assumptions of the modern era, foreshadowing radically new ways of thinking about the human condition, and the extent to which his version of psychoanalysis is, in certain respects, the prototype of a somatic psychology. The contemporary failure to appreciate Freud’s psychology in this manner is based on three factors.