Introduction

My first encounter with neuropsychoanalysis was a video of Mark Solms’s lecture “The conscious id.” I thought to myself: “Wait, I learned that the id is unconscious. This can’t be right.” So, I watched the video, and I have been fascinated by neuropsychoanalysis ever since. Perhaps with some personal enjoyment of impossibility, I have specifically tried to integrate the “impossible” Lacanian domain of sexuality and jouissance with contemporary neuropsychoanalysis, affective neuroscience, and computational neuroscience. This chapter introduces the trajectory of this book, my synthesis of a Lacanian neuropsychoanalysis.