Charles Hanly
Biographic Data
| ID | 1401622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Hanly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanly |
| SIGNATURE | HANLY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Narcissism, Realism, and Their Paradoxical Relation
This paper is an exploration of the way in which narcissistic fantasies contribute to the development of a capacity for reality testing by moderating anxiety aroused by development that could otherwise become traumatic. Images of the success and failure of this psychic process are to be found in Raphael's painting "The School of Athens." The facilitation of an improved capacity for realism by narcissistic fantasies is a paradoxical idea because, …
Psychoanalytic Epistemology: Kant and Freud
“Critical realism,” as I use the term, refers primarily to psychoanalytic epistemological issues and more generally to observational and experimental natural science and ordinary experience. I have
The Interplay of Deductive and Inductive Reasoning in Psychoanalytic Theorizing
Deductive and inductive reasoning both played an essential part in Freud's construction of psychoanalysis. In this paper, the author explores the happy marriage of empiricism and rationalism in Freud's use of deductive reasoning in the construction of psychoanalytic theory. To do this, the author considers three major amendments Freud made to his theory: (i) infant and childhood sexuality, (ii) the structural theory, and (iii) the theory of signa…
Skeptical Reflection on Subjectivist Epistemologies
Psychoanalytic theoryepistemologyphilosophysubjectivityobjectivityalternative perspectivescountertransferenceKantsciencecritical realismLoewaldOedipus complexneutrality
Response by Charles Hanly
Narcissism, hypochondria and the problem of alternative theories
This paper is an experiment in conceptual integration and clinical theory testing. Its argument is that narcissism and sexual object love develop from a single source and continue to interact during childhood development and adult life (Freud) and that drives in their oedipal and other formations are not merely disintegration products of narcissism (Kohut). Material from two analyses, supplemented by material from two others, indicate that narcis…
On truth and clinical psychoanalysis
Philosophers have enumerated three criteria of truth: coherence, correspondence and pragmatic. I shall define them and examine some of the relations among them. My overarching argument is that thes
Pragmatism, Tradition, and Truth in Psychoanalysis
It is argued that neither tradition nor its opposite, novelty, provides us with any reliable assurance as to where the truth lies in psychoanalysis or in any other body of knowledge. Both traditional ideas or new ideas may be true, but not because they are traditional or novel. It is because they can be shown to be true or false either deductively, by reason alone (i.e., by inference from an idea known to be true) or inductively by reason and obs…
The Third: A Brief Historical Analysis of an Idea
(2004). The Third: a Brief Historical Analysis of an Idea. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. 267-290
A Disturbance of Psychoanalytic Memory: The Case of John Rickman’s Three-Person Psychology
This article deals with two aspects of psychoanalytic history. The first is the history of ideas, specifically the notions of a one- and two-person psychology that are in such wide use today. Second, the authors attend, much more critically, to a disturbance of memory (repeated distortion, omission, selective representation, and misrepresentation) that has accompanied scholarly discussion of these ideas for the past 50 years. Finally, the authors…
Critical Realism: Distinguishing the Psychological Subjectivity of the Analyst From Epistemological Subjectivism
To clarify the concepts of critical realism, subjectivity, and subjectivism, distinctions are drawn among ontological subjectivism, moral subjectivity, psychological subjectivity, and epistemological subjectivism. Psychological subjectivity, including the ongoing affective life of the analyst, is an essential aspect of the analyst's response to the patient, and may either facilitate or distort an adequate observation of transference and countertr…
On Subjectivity and Objectivity in Psychoanalysis
Epistemological subjectivism has found its way into psychoanalysis along several theoretical and clinical paths. It has developed out of the clinical interest in transference and countertransference and, in particular, from the broadly generalized definition of countertransference now popular. The clinically necessary attention to analyst-analysand interaction has been turned into interactionism or intersubjectivism and a denial of epistemologica…
Reflections on Feminine and Masculine Authority: A Developmental Perspective
(1996). Reflections on Feminine and Masculine Authority: A Developmental Perspective. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 65, Knowledge and Authority in the Psychoanalytic Relationship, pp. 84-101
La psychanalyse et les fondements de la morale
La philosophie morale, pas moins que les autres branches de la philosophie, est caractérisée par des contradictions et des dichotomies (par exemple, le déterminisme versus la liberté, le naturalisme versus l'antinaturalisme, l'émotion versus la raison) qui aboutissent à des discussions sans fin. On garde l'impression que l'expérience morale doit être extrêmement individualisée; sans cela, comment des philosophes, également, sinon exceptionnelleme…
Psychoanalytic Aesthetics: A Defense and an Elaboration
Psychoanalysis provides a middle ground that synthesizes opposing views in aesthetics. The opposition in question is between those who would assign primary importance to form in art and those who would assign it to content. Psychoanalysis can offer a psychological elaboration of the aesthetics of catharsis first set out by Aristotle. And it is in this tradition that psychoanalytic theory should be placed. Although Freud emphasized the thematic, e…
An Unconscious Irony in Plato’s Republic
This study of some psychological themes in a classical philosophical work, Plato's Republic, is an exercise in applied psychoanalysis that attempts to formulate an integrated psychoanalytic and philosophical understanding of certain ideas to be found in that work. It contains an interpretative study of a legend introduced by Plato at a crucial point in the development of the philosophical argument of the Republic. It is hypothesized that his use …
Emotion, Anatomy and the Synthetic A Priori
Modern philosophy, if it has not settled any other of the chronic disputes that have troubled the history of the subject, appears to have decided once and for all the question of synthetic a priori principles. Logical analysis has demonstrated that synthetic propositions are empirical while a priori propositions are analytical and notational. Nevertheless, a broader survey of the contemporary philosophical scene reveals that the strict meaning of…
Phenomenology, Consciousness and Freedom
The phenomenological theory of motivation was first extensively developed by Sartre in his early Sketch of a Theory of Emotions and then in The Transcendence of the Ego, Being and Nothingness , and the Critique de la raison dialectique . Sartre's theory presents three difficulties which were recognized by Merleau-Ponty whose position, as formulated in Phenomenology of Perception , is, in part, an attempt to resolve them. The point of view of this…
On Subjectivity and Objectivity in Psychoanalysis
Epistemological subjectivism has found its way into psychoanalysis along several theoretical and clinical paths. It has developed out of the clinical interest in transference and countertransference and, in particular, from the broadly generalized definition of countertransference now popular. The clinically necessary attention to analyst-analysand interaction has been turned into interactionism or intersubjectivism and a denial of epistemologica…
The Third: A Brief Historical Analysis of an Idea
(2004). The Third: a Brief Historical Analysis of an Idea. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. 267-290
Critical Realism: Distinguishing the Psychological Subjectivity of the Analyst From Epistemological Subjectivism
To clarify the concepts of critical realism, subjectivity, and subjectivism, distinctions are drawn among ontological subjectivism, moral subjectivity, psychological subjectivity, and epistemological subjectivism. Psychological subjectivity, including the ongoing affective life of the analyst, is an essential aspect of the analyst's response to the patient, and may either facilitate or distort an adequate observation of transference and countertr…
Reflections on Feminine and Masculine Authority: A Developmental Perspective
(1996). Reflections on Feminine and Masculine Authority: A Developmental Perspective. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 65, Knowledge and Authority in the Psychoanalytic Relationship, pp. 84-101
The Interplay of Deductive and Inductive Reasoning in Psychoanalytic Theorizing
Deductive and inductive reasoning both played an essential part in Freud's construction of psychoanalysis. In this paper, the author explores the happy marriage of empiricism and rationalism in Freud's use of deductive reasoning in the construction of psychoanalytic theory. To do this, the author considers three major amendments Freud made to his theory: (i) infant and childhood sexuality, (ii) the structural theory, and (iii) the theory of signa…
Pragmatism, Tradition, and Truth in Psychoanalysis
It is argued that neither tradition nor its opposite, novelty, provides us with any reliable assurance as to where the truth lies in psychoanalysis or in any other body of knowledge. Both traditional ideas or new ideas may be true, but not because they are traditional or novel. It is because they can be shown to be true or false either deductively, by reason alone (i.e., by inference from an idea known to be true) or inductively by reason and obs…
On truth and clinical psychoanalysis
Philosophers have enumerated three criteria of truth: coherence, correspondence and pragmatic. I shall define them and examine some of the relations among them. My overarching argument is that thes
A Disturbance of Psychoanalytic Memory: The Case of John Rickman’s Three-Person Psychology
This article deals with two aspects of psychoanalytic history. The first is the history of ideas, specifically the notions of a one- and two-person psychology that are in such wide use today. Second, the authors attend, much more critically, to a disturbance of memory (repeated distortion, omission, selective representation, and misrepresentation) that has accompanied scholarly discussion of these ideas for the past 50 years. Finally, the authors…
Skeptical Reflection on Subjectivist Epistemologies
Psychoanalytic theoryepistemologyphilosophysubjectivityobjectivityalternative perspectivescountertransferenceKantsciencecritical realismLoewaldOedipus complexneutrality
Psychoanalytic Aesthetics: A Defense and an Elaboration
Psychoanalysis provides a middle ground that synthesizes opposing views in aesthetics. The opposition in question is between those who would assign primary importance to form in art and those who would assign it to content. Psychoanalysis can offer a psychological elaboration of the aesthetics of catharsis first set out by Aristotle. And it is in this tradition that psychoanalytic theory should be placed. Although Freud emphasized the thematic, e…
Emotion, Anatomy and the Synthetic A Priori
Modern philosophy, if it has not settled any other of the chronic disputes that have troubled the history of the subject, appears to have decided once and for all the question of synthetic a priori principles. Logical analysis has demonstrated that synthetic propositions are empirical while a priori propositions are analytical and notational. Nevertheless, a broader survey of the contemporary philosophical scene reveals that the strict meaning of…
Phenomenology, Consciousness and Freedom
The phenomenological theory of motivation was first extensively developed by Sartre in his early Sketch of a Theory of Emotions and then in The Transcendence of the Ego, Being and Nothingness , and the Critique de la raison dialectique . Sartre's theory presents three difficulties which were recognized by Merleau-Ponty whose position, as formulated in Phenomenology of Perception , is, in part, an attempt to resolve them. The point of view of this…
Emotion, Anatomy and the Synthetic A Priori
Modern philosophy, if it has not settled any other of the chronic disputes that have troubled the history of the subject, appears to have decided once and for all the question of synthetic a priori principles. Logical analysis has demonstrated that synthetic propositions are empirical while a priori propositions are analytical and notational. Nevertheless, a broader survey of the contemporary philosophical scene reveals that the strict meaning of…
An Unconscious Irony in Plato’s Republic
This study of some psychological themes in a classical philosophical work, Plato's Republic, is an exercise in applied psychoanalysis that attempts to formulate an integrated psychoanalytic and philosophical understanding of certain ideas to be found in that work. It contains an interpretative study of a legend introduced by Plato at a crucial point in the development of the philosophical argument of the Republic. It is hypothesized that his use …
Psychoanalytic Aesthetics: A Defense and an Elaboration
Psychoanalysis provides a middle ground that synthesizes opposing views in aesthetics. The opposition in question is between those who would assign primary importance to form in art and those who would assign it to content. Psychoanalysis can offer a psychological elaboration of the aesthetics of catharsis first set out by Aristotle. And it is in this tradition that psychoanalytic theory should be placed. Although Freud emphasized the thematic, e…
La psychanalyse et les fondements de la morale
La philosophie morale, pas moins que les autres branches de la philosophie, est caractérisée par des contradictions et des dichotomies (par exemple, le déterminisme versus la liberté, le naturalisme versus l'antinaturalisme, l'émotion versus la raison) qui aboutissent à des discussions sans fin. On garde l'impression que l'expérience morale doit être extrêmement individualisée; sans cela, comment des philosophes, également, sinon exceptionnelleme…
Reflections on Feminine and Masculine Authority: A Developmental Perspective
(1996). Reflections on Feminine and Masculine Authority: A Developmental Perspective. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 65, Knowledge and Authority in the Psychoanalytic Relationship, pp. 84-101
On Subjectivity and Objectivity in Psychoanalysis
Epistemological subjectivism has found its way into psychoanalysis along several theoretical and clinical paths. It has developed out of the clinical interest in transference and countertransference and, in particular, from the broadly generalized definition of countertransference now popular. The clinically necessary attention to analyst-analysand interaction has been turned into interactionism or intersubjectivism and a denial of epistemologica…
A Disturbance of Psychoanalytic Memory: The Case of John Rickman’s Three-Person Psychology
This article deals with two aspects of psychoanalytic history. The first is the history of ideas, specifically the notions of a one- and two-person psychology that are in such wide use today. Second, the authors attend, much more critically, to a disturbance of memory (repeated distortion, omission, selective representation, and misrepresentation) that has accompanied scholarly discussion of these ideas for the past 50 years. Finally, the authors…
Critical Realism: Distinguishing the Psychological Subjectivity of the Analyst From Epistemological Subjectivism
To clarify the concepts of critical realism, subjectivity, and subjectivism, distinctions are drawn among ontological subjectivism, moral subjectivity, psychological subjectivity, and epistemological subjectivism. Psychological subjectivity, including the ongoing affective life of the analyst, is an essential aspect of the analyst's response to the patient, and may either facilitate or distort an adequate observation of transference and countertr…
The Third: A Brief Historical Analysis of an Idea
(2004). The Third: a Brief Historical Analysis of an Idea. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. 267-290
Pragmatism, Tradition, and Truth in Psychoanalysis
It is argued that neither tradition nor its opposite, novelty, provides us with any reliable assurance as to where the truth lies in psychoanalysis or in any other body of knowledge. Both traditional ideas or new ideas may be true, but not because they are traditional or novel. It is because they can be shown to be true or false either deductively, by reason alone (i.e., by inference from an idea known to be true) or inductively by reason and obs…
On truth and clinical psychoanalysis
Philosophers have enumerated three criteria of truth: coherence, correspondence and pragmatic. I shall define them and examine some of the relations among them. My overarching argument is that thes
Narcissism, hypochondria and the problem of alternative theories
This paper is an experiment in conceptual integration and clinical theory testing. Its argument is that narcissism and sexual object love develop from a single source and continue to interact during childhood development and adult life (Freud) and that drives in their oedipal and other formations are not merely disintegration products of narcissism (Kohut). Material from two analyses, supplemented by material from two others, indicate that narcis…
Response by Charles Hanly
The Interplay of Deductive and Inductive Reasoning in Psychoanalytic Theorizing
Deductive and inductive reasoning both played an essential part in Freud's construction of psychoanalysis. In this paper, the author explores the happy marriage of empiricism and rationalism in Freud's use of deductive reasoning in the construction of psychoanalytic theory. To do this, the author considers three major amendments Freud made to his theory: (i) infant and childhood sexuality, (ii) the structural theory, and (iii) the theory of signa…
Skeptical Reflection on Subjectivist Epistemologies
Psychoanalytic theoryepistemologyphilosophysubjectivityobjectivityalternative perspectivescountertransferenceKantsciencecritical realismLoewaldOedipus complexneutrality
Narcissism, Realism, and Their Paradoxical Relation
This paper is an exploration of the way in which narcissistic fantasies contribute to the development of a capacity for reality testing by moderating anxiety aroused by development that could otherwise become traumatic. Images of the success and failure of this psychic process are to be found in Raphael's painting "The School of Athens." The facilitation of an improved capacity for realism by narcissistic fantasies is a paradoxical idea because, …
Psychoanalytic Epistemology: Kant and Freud
“Critical realism,” as I use the term, refers primarily to psychoanalytic epistemological issues and more generally to observational and experimental natural science and ordinary experience. I have
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