Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138560710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 270 str.

Donald L. Carveth

Opis

Beginning with Freud’s theory of human nature and civilization, Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice proceeds to review and critically evaluate a series of major post-Freudian contributions to psychoanalytic thought.

Spis treści

Foreword; Introduction: On Critique I Civilization and Its Discontents: A Kleinian Re-View II Expanding Structural Theory: Id, Ego, Superego, Ego-Ideal and Conscience III Is There a Future in Disillusion? IV Self Psychology and the Intersubjective Perspective V Lacanian Theory: Appreciation and Critique VI The Melancholic Existentialism of Ernest Becker VII Concordant and Complementary Countertransference: A Clarification VIII Clarifying and Deconstructing Winnicott IX Neo-Kleinian Theory: A Dialectical Re-Vision X Beyond Nature and Culture: Erich Fromm’s Existentialism; Postscript: Dialectical Thinking

O autorze

Donald L. Carveth is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought and a Senior Scholar at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is past Director of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis and a past Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse.