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This article sets out to explore the conditions for a possible dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience. If each science builds its theories around a specific object of observation, then what could be the object common to psychoanalysis and neuroscience around which to build a dialogue that is not reductive of one science to the other? Recent neuroscientific studies identify such an object in the topographical and dynamic organisation that unites the neuroscientific brain with the Freudian psyche, a “common currency” between the two sciences. To explore this hypothesis, the use of the dream is considered on both the theoretical and technical levels, in both sciences.
KEY WORDS: Psyche, brain, “common currency”, dialogue, dream, object, psyche, science.