Quien Busca Encuentra. Una Perspectiva Neuropsicoanalítica Sobre la Búsqueda

Mark Solms

doi:10.46553/RPSI.21.41.2025.p113-125

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Mark Solms University of Cape Town

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46553/RPSI.21.41.2025.p113-125

Keywords:

neuropsychoanalysis, affect, seeking, homeostasis, mood disorders

Abstract

This lecture is part of a webinar organized by the Turning Point Foundation for Health and Sustainability represented by its president, Dr. Andrea Rodriguez Quiroga, with the aim of promoting research-based clinical training. This webinar lasted two hours and consisted of a presentation of the theory in relation to SEEKING as an affect, its neuropsychoanalytic background and its clinical application. Finally, a clinical case was presented but is not reproduced in this paper for confidentiality reasons.

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Author Biography

Mark Solms, University of Cape Town

Professor Mark Solms was educated at Pretoria Boys' School and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He emigrated to England in 1988, where he worked academically at University College London (Department of Psychology) and clinically at the Royal London Hospital (Department of Neurosurgery), while training at the Institute of Psychoanalysis (1989-1994). He returned to South Africa in 2002 and is currently Director of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital (Departments of Psychology and Neurology) and Director of Training for the South African Psychoanalytic Association. He is also Director of Research for the International Psychoanalytic Association (since 2013).

He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Sigourney Award, the IPA Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award, and an Honorary Fellowship from the American College of Psychiatrists. He is the Director of Training for the South African Psychoanalytic Association and Director of the Science Department of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He has published 350 articles in neuroscience and psychoanalytic journals and is the author of eight books. His most recent, *The Hidden Spring*, appeared in early 2021 (recently translated into Spanish). Dr. Solms has left an indelible mark on his field. He is the editor and translator of the Revised Standard Edition of *The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud* (24 vols.) and of *The Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud* (4 vols.).

Dr. Solms’s dedication to advancing our understanding of the human mind and behavior is truly exemplary, and we are honored to have him with us today.

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Solms, M. (2017). What is "the unconscious," and where is it located in the brain? A neuropsychoanalytic perspective. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1406(1), 90-97. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13437

Solms, M. (2018). The neurobiological underpinnings of psychoanalytic theory and therapy. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, Article 294. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00294

Solms, M. (2018). The feeling brain: Selected papers on neuropsychoanalysis. Taylor & Francis.

Solms, M. (2021). The hidden spring: A journey to the source of consciousness. Profile Books.

Solms, M. (2021). A revision of Freud's theory of the biological origin of the Oedipus complex. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 90(4), 555-581. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2021.1984153

Solms, M. (2024). The hidden spring: A journey to the source of consciousness. Capitan Swing S.L.