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Space may be the projection of the extension of the psychical apparatus. No other derivation is probable. Instead of Kant's a priori determinants of our psychical apparatus. Psyche is extended; knows nothing about it.
This rather massive issue of almost 1800 pages contains contributions to the 70th conference of French-speaking analysts that took place in Athens in 2010. Fittingly, in this venue, the birthplace of philosophy, the theme of the conference concentrates on the mind-body question in Freud and in psychoanalytic theory. The foregoing quotation from Freud may serve as a theme for this issue, for it is the focus of attention for several of the articles.
In French psychoanalytic writings, a new interest in reexamining certain basic questions underlying psychoanalytic theory has arisen. One of these is the question of dualism versus monism, sometimes known as the mind-body problem. This essentially philosophical problem has been present, of course, all along in psychoanalysis, and comes up again now and then.
A major impetus for the most recently renewed interest comes from the appearance of the new French translation of Freud's texts. The translation problem has arisen with the gradual publication of the volumes of Freud's complete works, the Oeuvres Complètes of Freud, under the aegis of Jean Laplanche and his team. Though lagging many, many years behind Strachey's Standard Edition, it is perhaps a more ambitious effort. The preparation of this translation involved elaborate and intense discussions among leading experts concerning the choice of this or that