Classical, modern, and postmodern psychoanalysis: Epistemic transformations
- This paper addresses some assumptions underlying psychoanalytic theories. It uses Rorty's concepts of philosophy and poetry to capture distinctions: the former a search for universal truths and the latter an emphasis on meanings in discourse. Freud's embeddedness in 19th-century positivism organized his metatheorical assumptions, while some object relational theorists are inclined toward a con-structivist point of view. For many theoreticians these two vantage points overlap others insist on a sundering of the two. I maintain that polarizing these two positions is not useful. Both philosophical stances ask different kinds of questions and both types of questions are important for a general as well as clinical theory of psychoanalysis.
Metadaten| Author: | Doris K. Silverman |
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| Parent Title (English): | Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 04 (1994), pp. 101-128. |
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| Document Type: | Articles |
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| Language: | English |
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| Year of first Publication: | 1994 |
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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: | Silverman_D_K_1994 |
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| Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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| Licence (German): | xerox upon request |
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