THE PRESENCE OF DISSOCIATIVE DEFENCE IN FREUDIAN AND POST-FREUDIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS. ITS CURRENT NEUROBIOLOGICAL CORRELATES. The paper examines the use of the concept of dissociation in the work of first Janet, and then Freud and Breuer, following its initial overlap with the concept of Spaltung. Subsequently, dissociative defences in post-Freudian psychoanalysis were examined, re-evaluating the explanatory capacity of emotional dissociations and the nonintegration of subjective states. Finally, contributions from neuroscientific research indicate how the segregation and isolation of affective memories underlie the non-integration of subjective states, providing further differential clarity between removal defences and dissociative defences.

KEYWORDS: Affections, defences, dissociation, Ferenczi, Janet, memories, neurosciences, psychoanalysis, object relations, removal, splitting, trauma.