The Science of Love

Integrating post-structuralist conceptual frameworks, conclusions on the nature of unconscious intelligence from plant neurobiology, the psychological observations of French and Italian moralists, and dramaturgical analyses based upon Stanislavski's method, we construct a new foundation for psychoanalysis. Although our new conceptual framework for psychoanalysis differs in many important respect from Freud's we nonetheless conclude that Freud's major discoveries, namely the Oedipus complex and primal repression, are valid. We find support for Freud's theory of primal repression in Nietzsche's theory of the mnemonics of cruelty, that is to say, we conclude that primal repression is effected by the trauma of castration anxiety, which effectively writes a new, repressive memory for the subject while pushing the subject's Oedipus complex out of consciousness. We support the use of psychedelics for psychotherapy, in conjunction with the traditional talk therapy of psychoanalysis.