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The idea of turning to psychoanalysis to unearth the unconscious dynamics of legal inquiry and thought is certainly not new. For example, Jerome Frank's (1930/1963) masterpiece, Law and the Modern Mind, was a deliberate attempt to weave psychoanalytic theory into a complex and sophisticated critique of jurisprudential thinking and legal processes. The work of psychologists and social philosophers such as William James (1955) and John Dewey (1931) helped pave the way for this more pragmatic critique of legal formalism, deductive and syllogistic reasoning, and abstract analysis.
Perhaps the conceptualizations of Sigmund Freud come most readily to mind when raising questions of jurisprudential thought (notwithstanding contributions from Jung, Adler, M. Erikson, and Horney, to name just a few). Indeed, the psychoanalytic formulations of Freud have been a lightning