@article{Fourcher, author = {Fourcher, Louis A.}, title = {Acceptance, Compassion, and an Affirmative Analytic Attitude in Both Intersubjectivity and Compromise Formation Theory: Commentary on Paper by Arnold Rothstein}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 02 (1992), pp. 317-329.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 02 (1992), pp. 317-329.}, abstract = {Constructivist positions tend to emphasize the relativity of the unconscious to that which can be explicated in linguistically articulated, conscious experience. This notion emphasizes conscious creativity and change rather than unconscious repetition and resistance. The seemingly contradictory objectivist idea of the unconscious as a psychological system with its own integrity posits entities and forces that determine and shape behavior. This model of unconsciousness provides theorists a bulwark against reducing experience to purely social determinants. A dialectical view of the social-constructiviness of experience is suggested that links the concepts of absolute and relative unconscious together.}, language = {en} } @article{Fourcher, author = {Fourcher, Louis A.}, title = {Active intervention, psychic structure, and the analysis of transference. Commentary on Frank's >action, insight, and working through<}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 02 (1992), pp. 365-367.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 02 (1992), pp. 365-367.}, language = {en} } @article{Fourcher, author = {Fourcher, Louis A.}, title = {From disclosure to foreclosure. Reply to commentary}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 06 (1996), pp. 515-532.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 06 (1996), pp. 515-532.}, abstract = {This paper assesses the implications of Gr{\"u}nbaum's critique of Freud's >science< for a discussion of the relation between theory and practice in psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy. Guided by the work of the French sociologist, Bourdieu, it places Gr{\"u}nbaum's argument within a logic of intellectualism - a framework that tends to instrumentalize reason and romanticize practice, delineating the well-known territories of objectivism and subjectivism. Gr{\"u}nbaum's arguments within this logic are taken to be rhetorical maneuvers - such as valorizing the tally argument and then debunking it - aimed at rejuvenating an objectivistic approach to theory and practice. Gr{\"u}nbaum is successful insofar as much of the debate generated by his views accepts the terms of his intellectualist bias. It is suggested, however, that these are terms that have long been suspect that, indeed, it was Freud who helped bring them into question and that there is a broader framework of discourse that relativizes intellectualism within a dialectical opposition to >participationism.< A form of rationality founded in a nonconceptual knowledge of practice has begun to emerge within this more inclusive discourse under such rubrics as >social constructivist< and >relational< approaches to psychotherapy. It is argued that within the therapy situation a kind of >practical reason< can mitigate the controlling, instrumental authority of intellectualism as well as the collusive, sentimental servility of participationism. [T]he theoretician's claim to an absolute viewpoint, the >perspec-tiveless view of all perspectives< as Leibnitz would have put it, contains the claim to a power, founded in reason, over particular individuals, who are condemned to error by the partisan partiality of their individual viewpoints [Bourdieu, 1990, pp. 28-29]1.}, language = {en} }