Lost in cognition psychoanalysis and the cognitive sciences / Éric Laurent.

Originally published in French as "Lost in cognition : psychanalyse et sciences cognitives" by Éditions Cécile Defaut, 2008.

Includes bibliographies and index.

part I. How is the subject inscribed? -- Comsky with Joyce -- Neural plasticity and the impossible inscription of the subject -- part II. Impossible evaluation -- Collective expert-assessment and compared clinical trials : a machine run amok -- The psychopathy of evaluation -- part III. Psychoanalysis and cognition -- On the origin of the other and the post-traumatic object -- The cul-de-sac of cognitive psychoanalysis -- Cognition and transference in psychoanalysis today -- Epilogue : The new pathways of loss in the DSM-5 impasse.

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This book examines the pretensions of the new paradigm in psychology that has put itself forward as the model for the future of the clinical disciplines, thereby seeking to put paid to psychoanalysis. What is this paradigm shift? It goes by the name of cognitive-behaviourism. Where does it come from? From the United States. Until the nineteen-sixties, behavioural psychology had enjoyed a certain prestige in the US. It was later disqualified by the objections from the linguist Noam Chomsky who held that no learning procedure could ever account for linguistic ability. This ability was surely inn.