I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.
Eric KandelOne of the wonderful things about Internet is its like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.
Eric KandelBiology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of complexity that psychoanalysis does. But psychoanalysis has a degree of uncertainty about it. A psychoanalyst may have some deep insights, but cannot, at the moment, run experiments to establish whether it's really the truth.
Eric KandelThere are cells in the brain that respond to faces. This is one of the reasons that I deal with portraiture. We can learn a lot about our perception of facial expression from the behavior of these cells.
Eric Kandel