Freud And Psychoanalysis

Into The 21 st Century

Bibliographic Data

ID8334253
AuthorsSteven Reisner (31 West 11th Street #6C New York, NY 10011, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume47
Issue4
Pages1037-1060
Publication date1999-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000306519904700403
PMID10650550
OpenAlexW2136779037
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited18

Freud's psychoanalysis has been criticized as quintessentially “twentieth-century,” reflecting a Zeitgeist of scientism, authoritarianism, and modernism that is being challenged and transformed as we enter the twenty-first century. Yet embedded within the modernist twentieth-century Freud can be found a more radical twenty-first-century Freud, whose greatest contribution, psychoanalysis itself—a way of thinking about our ways of thinking and being—endures. In its relentless attention to the analytic process—to that which is left out of any discourse, even its own—Freud's psychoanalysis ultimately undermines all concrete valuations of authority and knowledge. In this it fits well with postmodernist notions such as perspectivism, deconstruction, and gender theory. To some extent, it is this twenty-first-century Freud hidden within the twentieth-century one who prepared the way for the readings that inform the postmodern era. Freud's concepts of drive and gender are examined here to illustrate a process within his writings that Casey (1990) termed “auto-deconstructive.” In it, theoretical positions, once asserted, are progressively undermined and subverted, leading not to a progression of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, but rather to the evolution of multiple vectors of thought and language, which arise, disappear, and reappear transformed, progressively expanding our understanding of how we think and the terrain of what can be thought

Antithesis · Art · Deconstruction (building) · Epistemology · Fyodor · Literature · Perspectivism · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Scientism · Sociology · Zeitgeist · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy

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