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As one of the more compelling contributions in the emerging genre of what Ruth Leys (Leys & Goldman, 2010, p. 2) has aptly called (following Foucault) ‘the genealogy of the present’, Katja Guenther's book Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Discipline not only diagnoses the past development of psychoanalysis and the neuro disciplines - including the ruptures that took place within, across and between them - while offering a state-of-the-art overview of the current debate, but it also aims to make a distinctive intervention with an eye towards actively shaping the future of the relationship between the fields. By shifting the conversation away from the more popular, at times vulgar, interpretation that reduces psychoanalysis's object of research to the metaphysical psyche and neuroscience's object of study to that of soma alone, Guenther proposes an alternative construct that one might use in thinking about the two fields. She sees the two disciplines and their respective methodic approaches (between which there has been an increasing antagonism over time) as not only having the same