Did Freud try to integrate neurological and psychological phenomena?
In 1895 he wrote the “Project for a Scientific Psychology” which he never published (and which was only published in 1950, many years after his death). Many notions in the “Project” have been of great interest to modern neuroscientists and psychoanalysts trying to integrate the findings of psychoanalysis and those of modern neuroscience. One very important area which Freud studied and modern neuroscientists study is the area of memory. For Freud, memories are continually worked over and revised. For example, Gerald Edelman, the Nobel Laureate, has described the brain’s role as one of constructing categories (so that every memory is a recreation or a recategorization) based on experimental neuroscientific data.
