title: Common (under)ground in psychoanalysis: the question of a Weltanschauung revisited.
abstract: The aim of this paper is to suggest that, beneath the 'common ground' shared by different types of psychoanalyses, there is a common underground that is seldom discussed in psychoanalytic literature: the fact that any psychoanalysis has the potential of becoming a Weltanschauung or world-view. The roots of this fact in Freud's writings are discussed and some of the consequences of this transformation of psychoanalysis into Weltanschauung for psychoanalysis as science and movement are presented.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Figueira
mesh_terms: D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*