The Dilemma of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Toward a “Knowing” Post-Postmodernism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8335364 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aner Govrin (0000-0002-6500-8535, 28 Mapu Street Tel Aviv 63434 ISRAEL, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 507-535 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/00030651060540020801 |
| PMID | 16773820 |
| OpenAlex | W2167731392 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 26 |
It is in the best interest of psychoanalysis that new schools of thought (earlier examples of which are the classical, Kleinian, and self psychological perspectives) evolve. Generating a new school of thought, however, is almost impossible in this postmodern era. The postmodern paradigm in psychoanalysis (intersubjectivity, dialectical constructivism, two-person psychology) does not strive to generate a “true” theory of mind that claims to fit reality, nor does it claim to be another school of thought. The creators of the classical, interpersonal, self psychological, ego psychological, Kleinian, Bionian, Fairbairnian, Winnicottian, and other schools cannot be postmodernists, for they all believed that their theories corresponded to reality and were therefore true. A shortage of analysts who “know the truth” today will make it extremely difficult for new schools of thought to arise in psychoanalysis, or for new and compelling theories and descriptions of the human psyche to be constructed. What is required is for pluralistic psychoanalytic institutions to empower analysts who are actively involved in the pursuit of new ideas and theories in psychoanalysis
Constructivism (international relations) · Dialectic · Dilemma · Epistemology · Id, ego and super-ego · Intersubjectivity · Politics · Postmodernism · Psyche · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
The language of psycho-analysis
How Does Analysis Cure?
Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis
Masochism, Submission, Surrender
Unformulated Experience
The structure of scientific revolutions
A critical evaluation of current conceptions of transference and countertransference
Implicit Meanings
Implicit Meanings
Pluralism or Relativism
Explanatory Unification
Psychoanalysis at Its Limits
Knowledge, Consensus and Uncertainty
Understanding Therapeutic Action in the Analytic Situation
Institutional Problems of Psychoanalytic Education
The Question Of Proof In Freud's Psychoanalytic Writings
Psychoanalysis and the Hermeneutic Turn
Unfree associations
| Citations per year | 0.44 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2019 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |