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It helps to put matters in better perspective when we realize that the Freudian revolution was implicit in the Darwinian.
The idea that human sociobiology1 and psychoanalysis might share some area of common intellectual concern is not altogether new. The chief spokesman of sociobiological theory today, E. O. Wilson, declares that “psychoanalytic theory appears to be exceptionally compatible with sociobiological theory” (1977, p. 135; cf. Ruse, 1979, p. 186). In agreement, the historian of science Frank Sulloway claims that Wilson's path-breaking treatise Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975), “despite