Abstract

Psychoanalysis is based on the principle that many factors guiding a person’s feelings, thinking, and action remain outside his or her conscious awareness. These unconscious emotional processes influence one’s current relationships, work life, sense of self, and ability to feel pleasure. Recent reviews of neuroscientific work confirm that many of Freud’s original observations, not least the pervasive influence of non‐ conscious processes and the organizing function of emotions for thinking, have found confirmation in laboratory studies The integration of psychoanalytic ideas with modern science is unlikely to interest investigators from other disciplines unless psychoanalysis can actually contribute to directing or to informing data collection in these disciplines. The isolation of psychoanalysis should be replaced by active collaboration with other mental health disciplines. The proposed reflection would like to stress the virtuous relationship between psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The knowledge of the psychiatrist is always incomplete, as well as the diagnosis is always ongoing. Psychoanalysis, as a discourse about the division of the Subject, can make to psychiatry indispensable tools to reflect on his practice.