Dear Sirs,

It was a great pleasure to read the insightful ‘letter to the editors’ by Dr Bonnie E. Litowitz and to see that there are colleagues who share our excitement at the prospect of opening doors between psychoanalysis and the cognitive neurosciences. We particularly appreciate the fact that we apparently have been able to communicate to her (and we hope also to other readers) the idea of attempting to bridge the gap between these two disciplines without idealising the difficulties of the concrete interdisciplinary dialogue.

We agree with the Dr Litowitz's remarks that we capitalise on the transfer from cognitive science to psychoanalysis and may not have sufficiently elaborated what contemporary psychoanalysis has to offer cognitive science. She rightly points out that it is our responsibility as psychoanalysts to ‘introduce this constraint (e.g. that there is no such a