Based on Solms, M. (2018). An introduction to the neuroscientific works of Sigmund Freud. In The pre-psychoanalytic writings of Sigmund Freud (pp. 17-35). Routledge Despite having spent two decades publishing around 200 neuroscientific titles, few people know Freud as a neuroscientist or as a clinical neurologist. Mark Solms has spent his entire professional life collecting, translating and organizing Freud’s neuroscientific works and has been working on a four-volume collected edition of these works since the 1990s. Freud’s time as a neuroscientist at the turn of the 20th century was marked by collective enthusiasm over neuroscience and its potential to elucidate both the workings of the human mind as well as the longstanding challenge of psychiatric disorders. During these years, many leading figures of European neuroscience hoped and sometimes claimed t
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