The death of psychoanalysis : murder? suicide? or rumor greatly exaggerated? / Robert M. Prince, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prince, Robert M., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis--Methodology.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Physical Description:

xxv, 378 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson, [1999]

Summary:

Psychoanalysis is in danger of becoming marginalized if not extinct, contends Robert Prince, lamenting its loss of hegemony in the world of ideas as it interfaces with an inhospitable cultural surround. Says the author, "Psychoanalysis remains analogic while the culture is becoming digitalized; the former thrives on associational thinking, the latter demands straightforward, goal-oriented reasoning".

The muscular papers Dr. Prince has marshalled in support of his assertion implicitly mirror a vision of the future of psychoanalysis even as they reflect on its present and past. Will psychoanalysis survive? Will it locate itself in medicine, in social science, in philosophy -- or as something sui generis? How large is the psychoanalytic tent? What is the role of its (mis)representation as a monolithic entity on part-whole contamination?

In keeping with the individual intellectual presence of each contributor -- among them Martin Bergmann, Carolyn Grey, Jonathan Lear, Marylou Lionells, Esther Menaker, Owen Renik, Paul Roazen, and Jeffrey Rubin -- this is a collective antidote to the toxic denial that has infected the infrastructure of the field.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0765701472

OCLC:

37553720