Reflecting Psychoanalysis: Narrative and Resolve in the Psychoanalytic Experience - Softcover

Reeder, Jurgen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855752840 ISBN 13: 9781855752849

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

At the heart of this book is an ethical question: 'With what legitimacy do I assume the right to interpret my fellow being?' This question is raised in the context of a critique of a particular hermeneutic interpretation of psychoanalysis, namely, psychoanalysis as an objectifying discipline in which the other (the analysand) is regarded quintessentially as a representation or exterior object to be understood. The author embraces the fundamental intersubjectivity of psychoanalytic experience. Intersubjectivity is viewed as the human encounter within the psychoanalytic setting where there occurs a mutual influencing or acting upon, rather than an encounter guided by an essentially objectivating scientific knowledge. Truth in this conception is not a cumulatively acquired possession, but an always-emerging process coiled within an interpretative dialectic occurring between human beings. This is a thoughtful, nuanced, clearly articulated and challenging book that engages directly with the perceived crisis of psychoanalysis.

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Reeder, Jurgen

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855752840
• ISBN 13: 9781855752849
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 286