Meaning, Mind, and Self-Transformation: Psychoanalytic Interpretation and the Interpretation of Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9781780491127 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str.

Victor L Schermer

Opis

This book will elucidate the scientific, philosophical, and hermeneutical basis of contemporary psychoanalysis and its key methodology, interpretation, with an aim to clarifying the prevailing diversity of theoretical perspectives. Psychoanalysis today is at a crossroads, where to remain a viable approach to psychotherapy and human understanding, it must come to terms with its own nature and place in the world. The central element of psychoanalytic process is interpretation of the unconscious meaning of the patient's free associations and transference. Interpretation, the basis of all technique, provides important clues about the nature of psychoanalysis itself. The author begins with a consideration of interpretation itself as it occurs in life, theory, and the consulting room. He considers the roles of interpretation in the two foundations of psychoanalysis: science and humanism. Then he takes up the major schools of thought and treatment approaches and how each is guided by its own understanding of interpretation as it reveals the depth and development of the patient's experience within the context of the healing process.

Spis treści

Foreword , Preface and Acknowledgments , An Introductory Note , Psychoanalysis at a crossroads: Between science and humanism—a path to understanding , Interpreting Interpretation: Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics , Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, ancient and modern thought, and the hermeneutics of Greek antiquity and Judaic sources , Romantic era hermeneutics , Twentieth-century Continental philosophy: Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida , Hermeneutics in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy , The psychoanalytic situation: Scientific “laboratory” or interpretive process? , Dimensions and dualities: The architecture of psychoanalytic interpretation , Hermeneutics in the unfolding process , Interpretation and self-transformation , Paradigms of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Understanding , Melanie Klein: The phenomenology of the unconscious , Donald Winnicott: the infant’s being-in-the-world , Self psychology, intersubjectivity, and relational psychoanalysis: “American originals” , Bion’s psychoanalytic work: From positivism and Kant to psychospirituality and beyond , Psychoanalysis and neuroscience: An uneasy marriage

O autorze

Victor L Schermer