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Prof Mark Solms is a neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst known for pioneering the field of neuropsychoanalysis. He discovered that dreaming depends on forebrain mechanisms rather than REM sleep and has worked extensively on the neural basis of consciousness. Prof Solms is Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town, co-founder of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis, and author of several influential books, including The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness (2021). In collaboration with Karl Friston, he has helped link neuropsychoanalytic ideas to the free energy principle, developing theoretical models that explain affect, motivation, and consciousness in terms of predictive processing and the brain's drive to minimise uncertainty.
You can find more of Prof Solms' work at https://neuroscience.uct.ac.za/contacts/mark-solms
The Hidden Spring: goodreads.com/book/show/53642061-the-hidden-spring
John Dall'Aglio is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne University whose work focuses on the intersection of Lacanian psychoanalysis and neuroscience (i.e. Lacanian neuropsychoanalysis). He is the author of A Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis: Consciousness Enjoying Uncertainty and has published on topics such as the free energy principle, jouissance, transcendental materialism, and the philosophic-theoretical foundations of neuropsychoanalysis.
You can find more of John's work at linkedin.com/in/john-dall-aglio-959187107
A Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-68831-7
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Prof Mark Solms is a neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst known for pioneering the field of neuropsychoanalysis. He discovered that dreaming depends on forebrain mechanisms rather than REM sleep and has worked extensively on the neural basis of consciousness. Prof Solms is Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town, co-founder of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis, and author of several influential books, including The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness (2021). In collaboration with Karl Friston, he has helped link neuropsychoanalytic ideas to the free energy principle, developing theoretical models that explain affect, motivation, and consciousness in terms of predictive processing and the brain's drive to minimise uncertainty.
You can find more of Prof Solms' work at https://neuroscience.uct.ac.za/contacts/mark-solms
The Hidden Spring: goodreads.com/book/show/53642061-the-hidden-spring
John Dall'Aglio is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne University whose work focuses on the intersection of Lacanian psychoanalysis and neuroscience (i.e. Lacanian neuropsychoanalysis). He is the author of A Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis: Consciousness Enjoying Uncertainty and has published on topics such as the free energy principle, jouissance, transcendental materialism, and the philosophic-theoretical foundations of neuropsychoanalysis.
You can find more of John's work at linkedin.com/in/john-dall-aglio-959187107
A Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-68831-7
RSam Podcast #84
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youtu.be/meUtWtY00H8?si=VWt980SJxXbM_DCM
youtu.be/kKTNyiaSGnI?si=c2WAsu3eHU5yXpPT
youtu.be/gxq4_cJyzNk?si=ONIqrSF7C58OTt1G
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"Supapao - Can't Fall In Love" is under a Free To Use YouTube license
soundcloud.com/supapao
Music powered by BreakingCopyright: youtu.be/VZkFJAb_gx4?si=J6AwKLAmikAzoqHj
Chill Lofi Hiphop - 'Breath' by l33 is under a Free To Use YouTube license
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/nocopyrightlofi/no-copyright-chill-lofi-hiphop-breath-by-l33
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