Why Is Reality a Troubling Concept
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8334965 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lawrence Friedman (Cornell University Medical College, faculty, New York University Psychoanalytic Institute), Lawrence M Friedman (Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 401-425 |
| Publication date | 1999-04-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/00030651990470021101 |
| PMID | 10422047 |
| OpenAlex | W2029018332 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 29 |
Many psychoanalysts assume that modern philosophy has revealed that objective reality is an illusion, and they take that as their starting point for discussing psychic reality and the direction of treatment. However, the philosophical argument for the antiobjectivist position, far from being a final truth, can be seen as a late echo of the age-old debate over whether it is possible to match unchanging general descriptions to the changing individuals in the world. It is but one of two competing philosophical positions (postulating either a world of incomparable individuals or a world of abstract properties), neither of which can definitively vanquish its rival without violating common sense. The underlying, specifically psychoanalytic problem that stirs these recent debates is not the philosophical problem of reality, but rather the question of what it can mean to say that someone is realistic in regard to the world of human values, roles, and relationships. Analytic tradition begins the inquiry by suggesting that realisticness about human meaning is a matter of feeling out the potentialities of the human world by multiple affective attachments. Many questions remain to be answered
Argument (complex analysis) · Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Feeling · Illusion · Meaning (existential) · Philosophical methodology · Philosophical theory · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Pathological mourning
What Constitutes Therapeutic Knowledge and How We Believe it is to Be Attained
Modern Hermeneutics and Psychoanalysis
A Renaissance for Freud’s Papers on Technique
Thinking about Psychoanalytic Curricula
Rethinking Pathological Mourning
Three Varieties of Authority
Testing Reality during Adolescence
Questioning the Psychoanalyst's Authority
Subjectivity and Objectivity in Analytic Listening
Are We Losing Our Mind
How Can We Know What We Need To Know? Reflections On Clinical Judgment Formation
The Discrete and the Continuous in Freud’s “Remembering, Repeating and Working Through”
Friedman's corpus Since His Anatomy
Love in the Therapeutic Alliance
Suggestion and Psychoanalytic Technique
Unformulated experience
The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap
History, Man, and Reason
Pragmatism
Anatomy of Criticism
Folk biology and the anthropology of science
Physical Activity Play
Frame analysis
The Concept of Mind
On the Construction of a Social Reality
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Development of Logical Empiricism
Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning
The Analyst's Knowledge and Authority
Psychoanalytic “Problems” and Postmodern “Solutions”
Drives and Knowledge
Introduction to Panel
Psychoanalysis as an Art and the Fantasy Character of the Psychoanalytic Situation
Notes on the Reality Principle
The social construction of reality
Validity in Interpretation
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2014 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |