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Psychoanalysis has long been criticized, arguing that it is a field of knowledge without scientificity. Hence, its main contributions and concepts have frequently been disregarded. This issue of Neuropsychoanalysis not only addresses the topic but also offers rich ideas and research that challenge the latter perspectives. However, neuropsychoanalysis is being questioned as well. The authors that present their work in this issue show how the revision of the most basic pillars of neuropsychoanalysis is part of our ongoing endeavors. We present a collection of articles that cover conceptual, philosophical, and research topics in neuropsychoanalysis that largely advance proposals covering some of the most controversial aspects of psychoanalysis and neuropsychoanalysis, such as the concept of repression, dual-aspect monism, the use of quantitative instruments, and neurological case reports.
Why do we often have very deeply ingrained, immovable opinions, thoughts, or phenomenological experiences? What underpins human bias? Deliberate forgetting, or self-deception? We still need to learn much about this interesting area of human neuroscience. Drawing upon the work of Freud, it has been suggested by several authors that repression could provide a theoretical underpinning for better understanding these phenomena. However, there is not yet a widely accepted, unified theoretical model of repression to better understand these phenomena. In a thought-provoking contribution to this issue, Beate Krickel attempts to address this gap in our knowledge by proposing a unique model of repression in her paper “A Psychological ‘How-Possibly’ Model of Repression” (Krickel, 2024). The author proposes that the “how-possibly” model is a hybrid model, which facilitates overcoming the problems of the higher order and separation models of repression respectively, whilst integrating the strengths into the new proposed model. Krickel’s “how-possibly” model can potentially provide a much-needed theo