Miller examines Freud's 1891 monograph, On Aphasia, and finds that Freud's neurophysiology anticipates many of his later psychoanalytic concepts. Freud did not accept the then-current model of point-for-point projection of body parts or functions onto the cerebral cortex, but formulated a "non-localizationist" position. Freud utilized a dynamic rather than static view of brain functioning. On Aphasia was transitional, leading to Freud's theory of trauma, the importance of individual experience, the principle of "the child within," and the concept that functional factors