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ABSTRACTThe Journal Neuropsychoanalysis: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Psychoanalysis and the Neurosciencescelebrated its 25th anniversary in 2023. The celebration gathered old and current editors. The story of the Journal and of neuropsychoanalysis is told by those directly involved in the project at its different stages. This text is a collection of the reflections that editors and guests shared on celebrating this special anniversary.

Mark Solms has written an article that suggests that neuroscientific data regarding the brain’s generation of consciousness pose a major challenge to Freud’s model of the mental apparatus. In doing so, however, he has demonstrated the vitality of that model—its continuing relevance in our efforts to understand not just the mind but also how the mind and brain are related.

Siri Hustvedt’s work illustrates how psychoanalysis offers unique and crucially important insights in the study of fundamental issues in human psychology such as those of memory, perception, subjectivity, and creativity. Her findings dovetail with Freud’s concepts of hallucinatory wish-fulfilment and primary process (as further elaborated by psychoanalysts Pinchas Noy and Barry Opatow). The findings also find resonance in a variety of neuroscientific fields of research, especially in studies of theta rhythm and its role in dreaming, memory, and early mental development, the relationship between hallucination and perception, and the brain research of Rodolfo Llinas.