Clinical Truth and Contemporary Relativism
Meaning and Narration in the Psychoanalytic Situation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8332587 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gail S Reed (1199 Park Avenue New York, NY 10128, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 713-739 |
| Publication date | 1995-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000306519504300303 |
| PMID | 8568152 |
| OpenAlex | W2141505763 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 10 |
This paper proposes that clinical psychoanalysis requires distinctions for its practice that tend to be blurred by a less than careful importation of contemporary philosophical concepts. One such distinction is that between narration and the event narrated; another, that between meaning seen as absolutely relative and meaning understood as hierarchical. The first distinction identifies present experience as formed by a narrative strategy arrived at in the past. The second distinction allows pathology to be described as arrests or limitations in the ability to construe meaning. This perspective has implications for a number of current debates, among them those concerning the roles of interpretation and reconstruction. A clinical illustration involving the reconstruction of a disavowed perception and relying on the aforementioned distinctions is presented
Epistemology · Event (particle physics) · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Narrative · Perception · Perspective (graphical) · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Relativism · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2004 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |