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With current perspectives regarding the mind—body relation in mind (part I), I focus in this essay on the question of what perspectives have come into play in psychoanalytic theorizing regarding this problem, especially in Freud's thinking regarding the mind—body relation. Freud's various positions are reviewed, extending from early more or less parallelist views, to some extent under the influence of Hughlings Jackson, to later more interactionist and even identity formulations. Pivotal texts in consideration of his views are his neurological masterwork, On Aphasia (1891), and the abortive “Project for a Scientific Psychology” (1895). These early works foreshadowed many of his later ideas, but regarding the mind—body problem brought little closure to his thinking. The vacillation and ambiguity of Freud's ideas around this issue have cast a long shadow over subsequent analytic thinking on this subject.