title: Freud's "Project" and its relationship to psychoanalytic theory.
abstract: Sigmund Freud wrote the "Project for a Scientific Psychology" in 1895. Although the "Project" is essential a neurological model of mind, it will be shown that major concepts in psychoanalytic theory can be traced to this work. These include libido, primary process and the pleasure principle, secondary process and the reality principle, wish fulfillment, the ego, consciousness, and repression. The "Project" signifies a transition in Freud's thinking from a neurological to a psychological realm of discourse.
mesh_terms: D003243:Consciousness; D004532:Ego; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007323:Instinct; D007989:Libido; D008959:Models, Neurological; D010990:Pleasure-Pain Principle; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012094:Repression, Psychology