Ethics & analysis : philosophical perspectives and their application in therapy / Luigi Zoja ; foreword by David H. Rosen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zoja, Luigi.

Series:

Carolyn and Ernest Fay series in analytical psychology ; no. 13.

Carolyn and Ernest Fay series in analytical psychology ; no. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Ethics and analysis

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http: //repositories.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/86082/Zoja_585445783_Txt.pdf'sequence=1 Most books on psychoanalytical ethics focus on rules, but author Luigi Zoja argues that ethics is really concerned with personal decisions--as is analysis itself. Rules are defined by others and center on punishment, but the purpose of analysis is to free the individual to make choices from his or her own "best" psychological and emotional center while still respecting society. Rules establish black and white; real ethics and psychological understanding both operate in the gray zone. Rules emerge from Enlightenment rationality; true ethics proceeds from choices and thus cannot be given in advance or be satisfied by respecting the rational part of the psyche only. After considering the nature of ethics, Zoja turns to Immanuel Kant and Max Weber for a practical consideration of therapeutic relationships. He applies his ethical principles to the first psychoanalytical cases (Anna O. and Sabine Spielrein) described by Freud and Jung. In his thorough examination of these original examples, Zoja balances the traditional ethic of rules and law with the "new ethic" proposed by Erich Neumann. The result is an appreciation of the complex--at times even contradictory--yet healing nature of analysis.

Contents:

Part I: Ethics : ethics as the elaboration of complexity

Justice

Beauty

Palace and square

Can evil be avoided if ugliness is compulsory?

Has beauty been shrinking throughout history?

Ethics again

The gray zone

Narration

Growing unethical?

The ethics of analysis

Part II: Analysis : ethical perspectives on psychotherapy

Processing

Sabine S. and Anna O.

A new ethical frontier

Final remarks.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-117) and index.

ISBN:

1-299-05264-9

1-60344-492-0

OCLC:

708568332