1st Edition

Reflecting Psychoanalysis Narrative and Resolve in the Psychoanalytic Experience

By Jurgen Reeder Copyright 2002
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

At the heart of this book is an ethical question: 'With what legitimacy do I assume the right to interpret my fellow being?' This question is raised in the context of a critique of a particular hermeneutic interpretation of psychoanalysis, namely, psychoanalysis as an objectifying discipline in which the other (the analysand) is regarded quintessentially as a representation or exterior object to... Read more
Introduction -- Metapsychology: defining the field of inquiry -- A contribution to the interpretation of unconscious fantasy -- A theory of reflection: the hermenutic circle -- A separate reality -- Character formation -- Narrativity and beyond -- The ethical moment: a metapsychological description

Biography

Reeder, Jurgen