Insight : essays on psychoanalytic knowing / Jorge L. Ahumada ; foreword by Dale Boesky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahumada, Jorge L., 1940- author.

Series:

New library of psychoanalysis.

New library of psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insight in psychotherapy.

Insight.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hove ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the clinical processes of psychoanalysis by charting modern developments in logic and applying them to the study of insight. Offering an epistemic approach to clinical psychoanalysis this book places value on the clinical interpretations of both the analysand and analyst and engages in a critique on purely linguistic approaches to psychoanalysis, which forsake crucial dimensions of clinical practice. Drawing on the work of key twentieth century thinkers including Jerome Richfield, Ignacio Matte-Blanco, Gregory Bateson and the pioneering contribution on insight made by James Strachey, topics of discussion include: the structure and role of clinical interpretation interpretation and creationism body, meaning and language logical levels and transference. As such, this book will be of great interest to all those in the psychoanalytic field, in particular those wanting to learn more about the study of insight and its relationship to clinical processes of psychoanalysis.

Contents:

Boesky , Foreword. Preface. Introduction: On the Place and Limits of Psychoanalytic Knowing. Logical Types and Ostensive Insight. Interpretation and Creationism. What is a Clinical Fact? Clinical Psychoanalysis as Inductive Method. Body, Meaning and Language. Fact, Context, Image, Narrative: A Bio-logical Approach. Toward the Epistemology of Clinical Psychoanalysis. Disclosures and Refutations: Clinical Psychoanalysis as a Logic of Enquiry. Counterinduction in Psychoanalytic Practice: Epistemic and Technical Aspects. Logical and Communicational Levels of Transference. The Double Work on the Clinical Evidences, and the Nature and Limits of Symbolization. The Analytic Mind at Work. Counterinductive Knowledge and the Blunders of So-called 'Theory of Science'. Postscript: ' What Hath God Wrought? ' A Plea for Insight in Media Society.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613714770

1-136-58680-6

1-280-87346-9

1-136-58679-2

0-203-15784-2

9780203157848

OCLC:

804665750