Standing at the center of some of the greatest shifts in psychoanalysis, for the past 60 years, Leo Rangell has witnessed and contributed to the great debates of our time. His contributions span a staggering seven books and over 450 articles, which tackle a vast array of topics from metapsychology to applied psychoanalysis. His insights have remained a cut above the rest. This may be due to his...

Patients with right hemisphere strokes sometimes vehemently deny their paralysis. I describe three new experiments that were designed to determine the extent and depth of this denial. Curiously, when asked to perform an action with their paralyzed arm, they often employ a whole arsenal of grossly exaggerated 'Freudian defense mechanisms' to account for their failure (e.g. 'I have arthritis' or ...

Wilhelm Wundt and Sigmund Freud are the founders of psychological modern thought. The concept citation context method was used to analyse mutual influence. results show that Wundt's work important explain hallucinatory character dream. On other side, quotations about his refusal recognize unconscious as a valid hypothesis any kind phenomenon. In conclusion, Freudian is excess lack Wundt´s syste...

One of the essential tasks of neuropsychoanalysis is to investigate the neural correlates of sexual drives. Here, we consider the four defining characteristics of sexual drives as delineated by Freud: their pressure, aim, object, and source. We systematically examine the relations between these characteristics and the four-component neurophenomenological model that we have proposed based on fun...

Leo Rangell has made countless contributions to the field of psychoanalysis. This paper presents an overview and a more detailed account of the development of his work. Rangell has advocated for the unification of psychoanalytic theory in what he calls a “total composite psychoanalytic theory.” He placed unconscious intrapsychic conflicts at the center of “the human core” and elaborated on five...