A Philosophical Basis for a Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis

Neuropsychoanalysis places subjective and objective perspectives on equal epistemological footing. This philosophical position of “dual-aspect monism” sees mind and brain as two appearances of the same part of nature. Here, I propose a method for shifting between these perspectives, to build a non-bio-reductive meta-neuropsychology. Additionally, by drawing on Adrian Johnston’s Transcendental Materalism, I develop a specific philosophical basis for a Lacanian neuropsychoanalysis which allows a formulation of the antagonistic real in nature itself. I also specify a Lacanian neuropsychoanalytic clinical position which explicitly aims at non-normative intervention.