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The Rhetorical Voice of Psychoanalysis: Displacement of Evidence by Theory
Donald P. Spence
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Hardback. Discusses the idea that psychoanalysis is no closer to being a science now than when Freud first invented the discipline. By challenging the traditions and diminishing the power of rhetoric, this text aims to show how psychoanalysis can remain a creative enterprise with a scientific base. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
As psychoanalysis approaches its second century, it seems no closer to being a science than when Freud first invented the discipline. All the clinical experience of the past hundred years, Donald Spence tells us in this trenchant book, has not overcome a tendency to decouple theory from evidence. Deprived of its observational base, theory operates more like shared fantasy. In support of this provocative claim, Spence mounts a powerful critique of the way psychoanalysis functions—as a clinical method and as a scholarly discipline or “science.” In the process, he prescribes an antidote for the uncontrolled rhetoric that currently governs psychoanalytic ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674768741
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V9780674768741
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Spence argues that Freud used powerful rhetorical devices to persuade his potential followers that his ideas were correct… The result has been (1) rigidity of theory—because much of theory is metaphor that can be neither proven nor disproven; and (2) limitation of discourse in psychoanalytic literature—because the central metaphors have attained the status of ‘truth’ that is no longer questioned ... Read more