In psychoanalysis as in most other fields of science, English is the in ternationallanguage. Not being a native speaker of English, one is confronted with much higher barriers when communicating clinical observations and theoretical reflections. Thus, in the early 1960s, Ulrich Moser raised (in German ) some fundamental questions con cerning the methods, theories, and philosophy of science of psycho analysis, questions that became a topic of discussion in the English speaking psychoanalytic community more than a decade later (see, e. g., the "theory crisis" in psychoanalysis). Now, three of...

The authors formulate a new theoretical concept of psychoanalysis, keeping in mind the development of the last 20 years in the field and concentrating on the interplay between emotion and cognition. Concrete issues like dreaming are studied with the help of computer simulation and artificial intelligence.

With the aid of this book, the reader will learn everything about the self-organization of behavior in robots that is known today. Many of the results are presented here for the first time. This work opens a new field of research.