The patient's private construction of meaning and canons of science
Freud's case studies noch einmal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8972053 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrzej Werbart (0000-0003-0859-1012, Högbergsgatan 71 DSE‐118 54 StockholmSweden, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1441-1461 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1516/ej86-v8cp-345t-qfqn |
| OpenAlex | W1978743290 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 16 |
Starting from Freud's classical case studies, the author highlights the tension between the psychoanalytical starting point in the subject's own meaning construction and the claims of the professional expert to objectivity, privileged knowledge and interpretative precedence. Psychoanalytic investigation of subjective phenomena came into existence parallel with Freud's magnifi cent project to furnish ‘a psychology that shall be a natural science’. The privileged knowledge of the specialist was substituted by the explicit intention to listen to the individual's own stories and private explanatory constructions. In order to investigate the territory of the unconscious, Freud had to develop various strategies for uncovering and correcting errors, and for testing clinically anchored hypotheses. However, Freud regularly failed to follow his own intentions. The thesis the author presents here is that departures from the explicit ambition to follow the subject's own meaning construction, and departures from the scientifi c attitude, easy to trace in Freud's case studies, accompany each other. These departures have had far‐reaching consequences for the present status of the psychoanalytic knowledge
Epistemology · Freudian slip · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Objectivity (philosophy · Order (exchange · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Subject (documents · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Unconscious mind · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Social Critique · Psychology · Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2012 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |