Impossible Ethics

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ID8333787
AutoresSarah Ackerman (0000-0002-6833-2402), Sarah D Ackerman (0000-0001-8752-8972, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume68
Fascículo4
Páginas561-582
Data de publicação2020-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0003065120953064
PMID32927984
OpenAlexW4250539070
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas13

The proper practice of psychoanalysis repudiates a rule-based code of ethical conduct. A conflict exists, however, between Freud’s rejection of the Biblical commandment to love one’s neighbor as oneself and his development of psychoanalytic techniques that demand something very much of this ilk. Other essential conflicts in analytic practice include the impossibility of removing the analyst’s desire from the analytic relationship, the unruly nature of unconscious processes in both analyst and analysand, and the après-coup nature of ethical recognition. A discourse of ethics is recommended in which analysts are called on to consider the ethical demands of each clinical moment. Ethical demands on the analysand, as well as the analyst, bring to light the way in which analysis rests on the foundational ethical situation into which humankind is born

Countertransference · Epistemology · Ethical code · Impossibility · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Unconscious mind · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Law · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Social Critique · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications