Psychoanalytic thinking : a dialectical critique of contemporary theory and practice / Donald L. Carveth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carveth, Donald L., 1944- author.

Series:

Psychological issues ; monograph 79.

Psychological issues ; vol. 79

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xxii, 270 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

"Since the classical Freudian and ego psychology paradigms lost their position of dominance in the late 1950s, psychoanalysis became a multi-paradigm science with those working in the different frameworks increasingly engaging only with those in the same or related intellectual "silos." Beginning with Freud's theory of human nature and civilization, Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice proceeds to review and critically evaluate a series of major post-Freudian contributions to psychoanalytic thought. In response to the defects, blind spots and biases in Freud's work, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, Jacques Lacan, Erich Fromm, Donald Winnicott, Heinz Kohut, Heinrich Racker, Ernest Becker amongst others offered useful correctives and innovations that are, nevertheless, themselves in need of remediation for their own forms of one-sidedness. Through Carveth's comparative exploration, readers will acquire a sense of what is enduringly valuable in these diverse psychoanalytic contributions, as well as exposure to the dialectically deconstructive method of critique that Carveth sees as central to psychoanalytic thinking at its best. Carveth violates the taboo against speaking of the Imaginary, Symbolic and the Real unless one is a Lacanian, or the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions unless one is a Kleinian, or id, ego, superego, ego-ideal and conscience unless one is a Freudian ego psychologist, and so on. Out of dialogue and mutual critique, psychoanalysis can over time separate the wheat from the chaff, collect the wheat, and approach an ever-evolving synthesis. Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists and, more broadly, to readers in philosophy, social science and critical social theory." -- Publisher's description

Contents:

Introduction: on critique

Civilization and its discontents : a Kleinian re-view

Expanding structural theory : id, ego, superego, ego-ideal and conscience

Is there a future in disillusion?

Self psychology and the intersubjective perspective : a dialectical critique

Lacanian theory : appreciation and critique

The melancholic existentialism of Ernest Becker

Concordant and complementary countertransference : a clarification

Clarifying and deconstructing Winnicott

Neo-Kleinian theory : a dialectical re-vision

Beyond nature and culture : Erich Fromm's existentialism

Postscript: dialectical thinking

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Carveth, Donald L., 1944- Psychoanalytic thinking.

ISBN:

9781138560710

1138560715

9781138560727

1138560723

OCLC:

1007757645