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Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition: Philosophies of Life and Their Impact on Practice

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Description for Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition: Philosophies of Life and Their Impact on Practice Paperback. A chorus of voices that both challenges and reaffirms the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, this title asks urgent questions - about the politics of psychoanalytic knowledge, and about how the profession is situated and operates in our culture. Editor(s): Marcus, Paul R.; Rosenberg, Alan. Num Pages: 476 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 658.

What is psychoanalysis? Whereas there was once a time when proponents of "mainstream psychoanalysis" could point to the preeminence of Freud's drive theory and the version of the human condition associated with it–man as seeking pleasure in an erotically tinged universe–contemporary psychoanalysis is a fractured and contentious discipline in which competing theories share little more than the basic concepts of unconscious mental processes, repression, and transference.
Taking the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions engendered by psychoanalysis over the past several decades as an encouraging point of departure rather than as evidence of the dissolution of the "psychoanalytic tradition," Psychoanalytic ... Read more makes explicit how, within each major theory, a particular story about the nature of the world and what it means to be human decisively shapes how the clinician conceptualizes individual psychopathology and approaches treatment. A chorus of voices that both challenges and reaffirms the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition asks urgent questions–about the politics of psychoanalytic knowledge, and about how the profession is situated and operates in our contemporary culture. Whether Freudian, Jungian, Kleinian, Kohutian, Lacanian, or hybrid, the clinician will find this book a useful guide to understanding how each theory's "philosophy of life" infuses clinical work.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
New York University Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
476
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814756089
SKU
V9780814756089
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99-50

About Marcus
Paul Marcus, a psychoanalyst and member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, is the author of Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps, and the Mass Society. Alan Rosenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Queens College and coeditor of Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust.

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