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Meaning, Mind, and Self-Transformation Psychoanalytic Interpretation and the Interpretation of Psychoanalysis
By Victor L. Schermer
Copyright 2014
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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Interpretation is the primary intervention of psychoanalysis. Until now it has been discussed almost exclusively from a technical standpoint, rather than its relationship to the mind, human life, and how it affects the personality. This book explores the intrinsic nature of interpretation in psychoanalysis. For that purpose, two streams of thought are brought into dialogue with one another:... Read more
Foreword , Preface and Acknowledgments , An Introductory Note , Psychoanalysis at a crossroads: Between science and humanism—a path to understanding , Interpreting Interpretation: Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics , Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, ancient and modern thought, and the hermeneutics of Greek antiquity and Judaic sources , Romantic era hermeneutics , Twentieth-century Continental philosophy: Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida , Hermeneutics in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy , The psychoanalytic situation: Scientific “laboratory” or interpretive process? , Dimensions and dualities: The architecture of psychoanalytic interpretation , Hermeneutics in the unfolding process , Interpretation and self-transformation , Paradigms of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Understanding , Melanie Klein: The phenomenology of the unconscious , Donald Winnicott: the infant’s being-in-the-world , Self psychology, intersubjectivity, and relational psychoanalysis: “American originals” , Bion’s psychoanalytic work: From positivism and Kant to psychospirituality and beyond , Psychoanalysis and neuroscience: An uneasy marriage
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Victor L Schermer
