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"Homo psychoanalyticus was thus not characterized by "the neutralization of ethics and of the political realm" and a dissociation of the "psychoanalytical sphere from the sphere of the citizen or moral subject in his or her public of private life." Rather, psychoanalysis presented the possibility of enjoyment in the use of the other as an instrument or object, while at the same time offering a means of undermining that sovereign pleasure, precisely by critically analyzing one's own psychic implication in it.

“what methodological difficulties lie in the path of an alliance between the neurosciences and psychoanalysis?”-The difficulty of merging a theory that emphasizes so many unknowns and biases with a science that prefers precision “looks for a mode of neuroscience-psychoanalysis mutuality that is strong because it is capable of tolerating, even enjoying and promoting, the process of being unbuttoned”-Allowing for the cognitive dissonance that may result from such opposite fields, and instead focusing on what can be gleamed in such a space “disarticulation is not a move against the a

Wilson (2011) explicitly states that this article is not a literature review, but rather explores the overlaps and intersections of neuroscience with psychoanalysis. “What methodological difficulties lie in the path of an alliance between the neurosciences and psychoanalysis?” (149). For the most part, Wilson sticks to reviewing the intersections of neuroscience and biology with psychoanalysis and psychological theories. However, Wilson ends her article by emphasizing the need to engage more critically outside the orthodoxy of the disciplines.

My interdisciplinary constitution screamed through most of this piece, which was both exciting and frustrating as a fan of Wilson's other work. Nearly every page had at least one, usually more, comments in the margins, crying, "This is evolutionary psychology...Yes, this is literally what evolutionary psychology posits...Why aren't you citing Derrida's Sign & Play, différance? Where are the references to Deleuze, lines of flight and the plane of consistency, the body without organs?

“It is an open secret that sexuality-once the sine qua non of psychoanalysis-is no longer foundational to psychoanalytic theory and practice.33 The three empirical pillars of contemporary psychoanalysis-infant development research, affect regulation, and attachment theory-testify to this growing neglect of sexuality.

Wilson's discussion of the topographical model versus the economic model of the unsconsious mind was new to me and very helpful in thinking through how I might discuss public space in my research. The idea of something being identifiable both through coordinates (place/topography) and through qualitative register (state/economy) makes sense to me when I approach the fuzzy unconscious as something that can be relayed or interpreted through two instruments at the same time.

I have been struggling a lot to figure out what an interdisciplinary professional life looks like - let alone how an interdisciplinary brain functions. This reading affirmed one of my more recent suspicions: that I would do well to let myself think like a lawyer, and let myself think like an anthropologist, and then allow these two voices to exchange ideas and comments. Instead of trying to unify two ways of thinking and stuff them into the same mouthpiece, it would be productive to make room for another mouthpiece.

"Stripped of its depth (libido, motive, conflict, drives, body), the cognitive unconscious is technically much closer to what Freud called the preconscious: a system governed by the secondary processes, bound to word-presentations, and separated from the raging unconscious by a barrier of censorship" (159)"The unconscious "consists of traces and associations of traces that have grown apart from initial experience, and the person can no longer enter into a direct relation with what took place: the experience has gotten lost and forms an unconscious internal reality.

Freud “specifies that the ideational representative is 'a succession of inscriptions and signs' - not signs o/a drive, but signs by means of which the drive is delegated a place in the unconscious.

Grosz’s (1990) chapter on language and the unconscious pays particular attention to the theoretical developments by Lacan, in relation to psychoanalytic discourse on the unconscious mind. The chapter excavate’s Lacan’s work and his own analysis on dreams, in relation to the unconscious mind.