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This book is the first in the Routledge Neuropsychoanalysis series edited by Mark Solms. Mark Kinet is a well-known writer in the Dutch-speaking psychoanalytical community, who has published over 30 books. This book is an updated and expanded translation of an earlier Dutch book.
Kinet tells us how, out of his curious nature, he encountered neuropsychoanalysis. First through his professional connection with Ariane Bazan, then reading and viewing YouTube videos of Mark Solms. As he tells us, he is neither an academic nor a neuropsychoanalyst, but he has been working for more than thirty years as a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst. The book includes 21 chapters that are separated by short interludes associatively connected to the chapters. Two-thirds of the book are about his discovery of neuropsychoanalysis, as explained by Solms. The last third of the book links Solms’ neuropsychoanalysis to the ideas of Bazan and, hence, to the ideas of Lacan.
Kinet describes his discovery of neuropsychoanalysis with a short personal introduction and in the following interlude we are introduced to Panksepp’s seven emotional-instinctive systems that we share with all mammals through Bruce, the black Labrador that lives in Kinet’s family. So, the groundwork is laid: our emotions are linked to our brain structures.
As Kinet is a trained psychiatrist, he was at first, as he tells us in the next chapter, skeptical of the contribution of neurology to his understanding of his patients, each a unique human being.
In the following chapters, we learn about neuroplasticity and the neurobiology of attachment, which is so important for our first memories. This leads to Freud’s Project and Solms’ “translation” in neuropsychoanalytical terms, which describes that our memory helps to satisfy our needs. And so, we meet Panksepp and his affect taxonomy and the meaning of homeostasis. The scene is set for Solms’ ground-breaking insight that the id is conscious. And then the most recent