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It is a pleasure to introduce the dialogue published here. John Dall' Aglio's three-part “Sex and Prediction Error,” Mark Solms's commentary, and Dall'Aglio's reply are together a Rosetta stone for two languages within psychoanalysis: Lacanian psychoanalysis and neuropsychoanalysis. Each language has its own vocabulary and syntax, and yet each is closely connected to core sources held in common. Each reaches beyond language to describe multiple layers of reality within psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice. Each rewards close study in its own right, but gaining access requires work. The dialogue here between Dall'Aglio and Solms carries out a meaningful bit of that work, illuminating two approaches to psychoanalytic thinking, while shedding light on psychoanalysis itself from two convergent perspectives.
Dall'Aglio's comprehensive contribution speaks for Lacanian neuropsychoanalysis. In itself, it is a massive work of integration, in which Dall'Aglio devotes an entire part to neuropsychoanalysis, including an explication of Solms's neuropsychoanalytic model of Karl Friston's free energy principle (Friston et al. 2010) and a defense of neuropsychoanalysis against charges of reductionism. Solms's commentary approaches the dialogue from the perspective of neuropsychoanalysis.
An accessible summary article, “What Is Neuropsychoanalysis?” by Mark Solms and Oliver Turnbull (2011), presents the historical, philosophical, and scientific foundations of neuropsychoanalysis, as well