His main concern, he argues, is with the role of psychoanalysis in relation to psychology, and he adopts the argument made by Erica Burman that psychoanalysis is the 'repressed other' of psychology.
He is primarily concerned with how psychoanalysis relates to psychology, and he agrees with Erica Burman's view that psychoanalysis acts as a kind of 'unrecognized complement' to psychology.