Could I Be Mistaken? The Problem of Personal Knowledge in Psychoanalytic Theory
Commentary on Robin Gomolin’s “The Intergenerational Theory of Holocaust Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Theory Revisited”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13647299 |
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| Authors | Jane V Kite (209 Pearl St., Cambridge, MA 02139, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 513-523 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00332828.2019.1616494 |
| OpenAlex | W2958340014 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
In this commentary, it is argued that analysts' passionately held personal beliefs inevitably shape their theories, and that trauma (avowed or disavowed) plays an outsize role in this process. The question of the intergenerational transmission of models of trauma among like-minded analysts and the impact of these models/beliefs on clinical work is also addressed
Epistemology · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · The Holocaust · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
| Highly cited | No |
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