A cat is not a battleship
Thoughts on the meaning of “neuropsychoanalysis”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8971225 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brett H Clarke (Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute, 3001 Highland Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 425-449 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00207578.2017.1399064 |
| PMID | 33951823 |
| OpenAlex | W2795202833 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 54 |
As a conspicuously hybrid entity, neuropsychoanalysis enjoins one to look critically at its assumptions about knowledge and subjectivity as one tries to understand how its un-hyphenated halves relate to one another. The author looks at the differences between mind (which is grounded in subjective experience) and brain (which is an objectively described neurobiological entity), and suggests that neuropsychoanalytic writers are inclined to acknowledge but then disregard the unique, irreducible nature of lived experience, and the fundamental differences between the psychoanalytic mind (which requires an experiencing subject) and the brain (which is a neuronal aggregate). The author offers a philosophical basis for contending that there are potential dangers for psychoanalysis when neuroscience is misrecognized in its fundamental differences and injudiciously employed as a psychoanalytic partner in order to answer questions that properly belong to the language and conceptual architecture of psychoanalysis
Cognitive science · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Computer Science · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |