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Reply to discussion by Enid Balint

  • This commentary addresses two themes: parallels between religious and psychoanalytic education and the question of group survival in a world of competitive groups, whether religious (>strict< vs. >weak<) or psychoanalytic (differing psychoanalytic approaches). >Strict< religious education involves teaching both critical thinking and identification with the particular religion. This blend of critical thinking and identification with psychoanalysis is crucial in psychoanalytic education. We want to graduate students who see themselves as psychoanalysts rather than as being >interested< in psychoanalysis. This goal is accomplished when students have close, positive experience with personal analysts, supervisors, and teachers who are strongly committed to psychoanalysis but in a manner that encourages students to think critically and find their own psychoanalytic perspective. With regard to the second theme, I discuss how our narcissistic commitment to one or another psychoanalytic model interferes with open integration of new insights. Individual analysts privately integrate competing ideas in their own idiosyncratic ways. When these individuals publicly represent competing psychoanalytic groups, however, they tend to emphasize differences among these groups. They then find ways to appropriate new ideas as extensions of their own evolving tradition. In this way, a theoretical school is able to integrate new developments while preserving its own identity.

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Author:Andrew B. Druck
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 10 (2000), pp. 889-907.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2000
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Druck_A_B_2000
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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