Psychoanalysis of Science

Yehoyakim Stein is a practising psychiatrist/psycho-analyst and a teaching analyst and research fellow of the Freud Center, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of "Some Reflections on the Inner Space of the Body", in Psychoanalytic Studies of the Child (Yale University Press); and most recently, The Flutist From Vienna: On Personal Responsibility (Keter Press, Jerusalem).

"Stein's book, in the stream of a tradition that is almost lost today, i.e. that of Gaston Bachelard, Louis Althusser and very few others, confronts an extremely interesting challenge: that of analyzing the impact of Freudian unconscious on the scientific creativity processes and on the scientific discourse. The result is a very original and coherent proposal." -- Jorge Canestri, Professor of Psychology at the University of Rome.