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Psychoanalysis has an intense, secret, materialistic longing. Although it originated in the gap between A Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895) and the Interpretation of Dreams (1900), it feels, like the neurotics it studies, embarrassed by such an unseemly conception. Clutching Freud's periodic assertions of an eventual reduction to its organic underpinnings, analysis, requiring the courage of its founder, is wounded by the attacks of the hard scientists and the philosophers of science (Feynman, Grünbaum) and directly acknowledges that its entire enterprise is but a long detour of ignorance.1
For analysts, the object of study is the mind. We investigate mental events in an attempt to discover and conceptualize all