Applications, Implications, Complications: Reply to Reviews by Elkind, Gerson, and Levine
- A challenge is offered to the characterization of psychoanalysis as suffering from potentially fatal epistemic flaws and needing to ground itself in the language of hermeneutics, neuropsychology, or infant observation in order to survive. Psychoanalytic truth is neither made up nor discovered. Psychoanalytic propositions are true in the important sense of being the most useful statements we can make right now about the nature and functioning of the human unconscious. Psychoanalytic theories evolve through rational critical discourse just as theories evolve in all fields of science and scholarship.
MetadatenAuthor: | Charles Spezzano |
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Parent Title (English): | Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 03 (1993), pp. 177-208. |
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Document Type: | Articles |
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Language: | English |
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Year of first Publication: | 1993 |
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Release Date: | 2017/11/20 |
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Format: | xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage |
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IdNo: | Spezzano_C_1993 |
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Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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