The Question of the Drive in Psychoanalysis

In terms of the meta-psychology of psychoanalysis, Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology may be seen as one of his seminal works.[1] In this Freud sets out a particular view of the mind to which he returns many times, most notably in chapter seven of The Interpretation of Dreams.[2] The fact that he develops this model of the mind from an 'economic', or one might even say a 'physiological' beginning to a final psychological form does not change its fundamental structure.…