Mark Solms
Biographic Data
| ID | 1409736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Solms |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Solms |
| SIGNATURE | SOLMS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4828-3882 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Did Strachey falsely scientize Freud?
Traduire Freud
Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, 22 February 1936–8 August 2024
Uma perspectiva neuropsicanalítica das adicções
Começo, é claro, com (Sigmund) Freud, que escreveu o seguinte em 1897: “Percebi que a masturbação é o único hábito importante, a adicção primal, e que é apenas como substitutas e substituição para ela que as outras adicções (ao álcool, morfina, tabaco, etc.) surgem”. Freud acreditava que o único impulso para o prazer é o sexual. Hoje, nós, neurocientistas, sabemos que existem muitos tipos diferentes de prazer no cérebro, e cada um deles tem seu p…
Conversation With Mark Solms
Occasioned by the publication of The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, the text represents exchanges held in the summer of 2024 at the invitation of The Psychoanalytic Review. It addresses the genesis and the history of the project, and its impact on psychoanalytic rethinking, formation, and practice. While exploring the potential and the limits of revisioning, it also raises questions about the nature…
Guest Editor's Introduction to the IJP Special Issue on Freud's Revised Standard Edition
Reply to Commentaries
On the Dark Side of Chronic Depression: Psychoanalytic, Social-Cultural and Research Approaches
Commentary On Dall’Aglio
A Revision of Freud’s Theory of the Biological Origin of the Oedipus Complex
This revision concerns primarily the biological origin of the Oedipus complex, classically understood as an inherited primal phantasy. However, a reconceptualization of the origin of what Freud called the nuclear complex of the neuroses also has consequences for understanding its nature. A review of current knowledge relevant to the biological mechanisms of inheritance and the type of memory system that Freud had in mind, and a review of modern i…
Revision of Drive Theory
Several deep revisions of Freud’s theory of the drives are proposed: (1) Drives are conscious and are in fact the source of all consciousness. (2) Drive energy is equated with variational free energy and is therefore quantifiable in principle. (3) There are not two drives but many, seven of which may be described as “emotional” as opposed to “bodily” drives. (4) All drives are self-preservative or preservative of the species; there is no death dr…
Affective agnosia: A core affective processing deficit in the alexithymia spectrum
Affective agnosia, an impairment in knowing how one feels emotionally, has been described as an extreme deficit in the experience and expression of emotion that may confer heightened risk for adverse medical outcomes. Alexithymia, by contrast, has been proposed as an over-arching construct that includes a spectrum of deficits of varying severity, including affective agnosia at the more severe end. This perspective has been challenged by Taylor an…
When the Body Displaces the Mind: Stress, Trauma and Somatic Disease
The Mind-Brain Relationship
This book describes how neural circuitry develops epigenetically, in a manner that directly reflects early environmental influences. It provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the field, and discusses the structure and function of memory.
Extracts from the Revised Standard Edition of Freud’s complete psychological works
The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud is about to appear in print, almost three decades after the revision was first conceived. This article provides a preview of the nature and scope of the revisions, through a series of extracts from the new edition
Testosterone facilitates the sense of agency
Prominence of hyperarousal symptoms explains variability of sleep disruption in posttraumatic stress disorder
These preliminary findings, although requiring replication in larger samples, suggest an important association between hyperarousal symptoms and sleep quality in PTSD, and may help explain why some PTSD-diagnosed individuals experience markedly disrupted sleep whereas others do not. (PsycINFO Database Record
Social dominance and the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales
The case for neuropsychoanalysis: Why a dialogue with neuroscience is necessary but not sufficient for psychoanalysis
Recent advances in the cognitive, affective and social neurosciences have enabled these fields to study aspects of the mind that are central to psychoanalysis. These developments raise a number of possibilities for psychoanalysis. Can it engage the neurosciences in a productive and mutually enriching dialogue without compromising its own integrity and unique perspective? While many analysts welcome interdisciplinary exchanges with the neuroscienc…
Psychoanalysis in Pursuit of Truth and Reconciliation on a South African Farm: Commentary on Gobodo-Madikizela
Feeling Brain: Selected Papers on Neuropsychoanalysis
On: Psychoanalysis in South Africa
"On: Psychoanalysis in South Africa." The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 95(1), p. 145
The Conscious Id
Two aspects of the body are represented in the brain, and they are represented differently. The most important difference is that the brain regions for the two aspects of the body are associated with different aspects of consciousness. Very broadly speaking, the brainstem mechanisms derived from the autonomic body are associated with affective consciousness, and the cortical mechanisms derived from the sensorimotor body are associated with cognit…
Approach/avoidance in dreams
Shooting the messenger won’t change the news
The Conscious Id
Two aspects of the body are represented in the brain, and they are represented differently. The most important difference is that the brain regions for the two aspects of the body are associated with different aspects of consciousness. Very broadly speaking, the brainstem mechanisms derived from the autonomic body are associated with affective consciousness, and the cortical mechanisms derived from the sensorimotor body are associated with cognit…
New Findings on the Neurological Organization of Dreaming: Implications for Psychoanalysis
A recent clinico-anatomical study of the dreams of 332 neurological and neurosurgical patients suggests that the essential psychological processes of dreaming are mediated by higher forebrain structures (inferior parietal and mediobasal frontal lobes in particular) rather than the primitive brainstem nuclei which regulate REM sleep. The fundamental neuropsychological mechanisms involved in dreaming appear to be (1) inhibitory mental control, (2) …
What Is Consciousness
In the past few years scientists and scholars in a variety of disciplines have been making concerted efforts to answer an ancient question, namely, How exactly do the physical processes in the brain cause consciousness? What is distinctive about the way in which modern scientists and scholars are approaching this question is that they are treating it as a scientific problem rather than a metaphysical one. This transition reflects the air of expec…
The case for neuropsychoanalysis: Why a dialogue with neuroscience is necessary but not sufficient for psychoanalysis
Recent advances in the cognitive, affective and social neurosciences have enabled these fields to study aspects of the mind that are central to psychoanalysis. These developments raise a number of possibilities for psychoanalysis. Can it engage the neurosciences in a productive and mutually enriching dialogue without compromising its own integrity and unique perspective? While many analysts welcome interdisciplinary exchanges with the neuroscienc…
Revision of Drive Theory
Several deep revisions of Freud’s theory of the drives are proposed: (1) Drives are conscious and are in fact the source of all consciousness. (2) Drive energy is equated with variational free energy and is therefore quantifiable in principle. (3) There are not two drives but many, seven of which may be described as “emotional” as opposed to “bodily” drives. (4) All drives are self-preservative or preservative of the species; there is no death dr…
A Revision of Freud’s Theory of the Biological Origin of the Oedipus Complex
This revision concerns primarily the biological origin of the Oedipus complex, classically understood as an inherited primal phantasy. However, a reconceptualization of the origin of what Freud called the nuclear complex of the neuroses also has consequences for understanding its nature. A review of current knowledge relevant to the biological mechanisms of inheritance and the type of memory system that Freud had in mind, and a review of modern i…
Extracts from the Revised Standard Edition of Freud’s complete psychological works
The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud is about to appear in print, almost three decades after the revision was first conceived. This article provides a preview of the nature and scope of the revisions, through a series of extracts from the new edition
Neurosciences and psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis in Pursuit of Truth and Reconciliation on a South African Farm: Commentary on Gobodo-Madikizela
Reply to Domhoff (2004): Dream Research in the Court of Public Opinion
Freud's Dream: A Complete Interdisciplinary Science of Mind . Patricia Kitcher
New Findings on the Neurological Organization of Dreaming: Implications for Psychoanalysis
A recent clinico-anatomical study of the dreams of 332 neurological and neurosurgical patients suggests that the essential psychological processes of dreaming are mediated by higher forebrain structures (inferior parietal and mediobasal frontal lobes in particular) rather than the primitive brainstem nuclei which regulate REM sleep. The fundamental neuropsychological mechanisms involved in dreaming appear to be (1) inhibitory mental control, (2) …
Commentaries
What Is Consciousness
In the past few years scientists and scholars in a variety of disciplines have been making concerted efforts to answer an ancient question, namely, How exactly do the physical processes in the brain cause consciousness? What is distinctive about the way in which modern scientists and scholars are approaching this question is that they are treating it as a scientific problem rather than a metaphysical one. This transition reflects the air of expec…
Neurosciences and psychoanalysis
Incidence of Threat in Dreams: A Response to Revonsuo's Threat Simulation Theory
A. Revonsuo (2000b) proposed an evolutionary theory of dreaming, stating it is a threat simulation mechanism that allowed early humans to rehearse threat perception and avoidance without biological cost. The present study aimed to establish the proportion of dreams containing physical threats to the dreamer, whether these represent realistic life-threatening events, and whether the dreamer successfully and realistically escapes. It also examined …
Reply to Domhoff (2004): Dream Research in the Court of Public Opinion
Freud” and Bullitt: An Unknown Manuscript
An English translation of a previously unknown manuscript by Freud is presented. The manuscript, originally prepared in 1931 for William Bullitt's psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson, provides a general theoretical introduction to psychoanalysis. It also includes an original interpretation of Christianity that postulates a deep-going continuity between Christ identification and latent homosexuality. An editorial introduction to the translation clar…
Shooting the messenger won’t change the news
Threat in dreams: An adaptation
Approach/avoidance in dreams
The Conscious Id
Two aspects of the body are represented in the brain, and they are represented differently. The most important difference is that the brain regions for the two aspects of the body are associated with different aspects of consciousness. Very broadly speaking, the brainstem mechanisms derived from the autonomic body are associated with affective consciousness, and the cortical mechanisms derived from the sensorimotor body are associated with cognit…
On: Psychoanalysis in South Africa
"On: Psychoanalysis in South Africa." The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 95(1), p. 145
Social dominance and the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales
The case for neuropsychoanalysis: Why a dialogue with neuroscience is necessary but not sufficient for psychoanalysis
Recent advances in the cognitive, affective and social neurosciences have enabled these fields to study aspects of the mind that are central to psychoanalysis. These developments raise a number of possibilities for psychoanalysis. Can it engage the neurosciences in a productive and mutually enriching dialogue without compromising its own integrity and unique perspective? While many analysts welcome interdisciplinary exchanges with the neuroscienc…
Psychoanalysis in Pursuit of Truth and Reconciliation on a South African Farm: Commentary on Gobodo-Madikizela
Feeling Brain: Selected Papers on Neuropsychoanalysis
Prominence of hyperarousal symptoms explains variability of sleep disruption in posttraumatic stress disorder
These preliminary findings, although requiring replication in larger samples, suggest an important association between hyperarousal symptoms and sleep quality in PTSD, and may help explain why some PTSD-diagnosed individuals experience markedly disrupted sleep whereas others do not. (PsycINFO Database Record
Testosterone facilitates the sense of agency
When the Body Displaces the Mind: Stress, Trauma and Somatic Disease
The Mind-Brain Relationship
This book describes how neural circuitry develops epigenetically, in a manner that directly reflects early environmental influences. It provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the field, and discusses the structure and function of memory.
Extracts from the Revised Standard Edition of Freud’s complete psychological works
The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud is about to appear in print, almost three decades after the revision was first conceived. This article provides a preview of the nature and scope of the revisions, through a series of extracts from the new edition
Affective agnosia: A core affective processing deficit in the alexithymia spectrum
Affective agnosia, an impairment in knowing how one feels emotionally, has been described as an extreme deficit in the experience and expression of emotion that may confer heightened risk for adverse medical outcomes. Alexithymia, by contrast, has been proposed as an over-arching construct that includes a spectrum of deficits of varying severity, including affective agnosia at the more severe end. This perspective has been challenged by Taylor an…
Commentary On Dall’Aglio
A Revision of Freud’s Theory of the Biological Origin of the Oedipus Complex
This revision concerns primarily the biological origin of the Oedipus complex, classically understood as an inherited primal phantasy. However, a reconceptualization of the origin of what Freud called the nuclear complex of the neuroses also has consequences for understanding its nature. A review of current knowledge relevant to the biological mechanisms of inheritance and the type of memory system that Freud had in mind, and a review of modern i…
Psychology (25 works) · Psychoanalysis (18 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Cognitive science (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Neuroscience (7 works) · Sleep and Wakefulness Research (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)