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Psychoanalysis Beyond the End of Metaphysics
Thinking Towards the Post-Relational
Author: Brown Robin
Language: EnglishSubjects for Psychoanalysis Beyond the End of Metaphysics:
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Clinical Practice; Psychoanalysis; Heidegger’s Fundamental Ontology; relational; Viennese Coffee Houses; Lacan; Donnel Stern; Jung; Classical German Philosophy; metaphysics; Contemporary Intellectual Climate; pluralism; Freudian Drive Theory; psychotherapy; North American Psychoanalysis; interpersonal; Archetypal Thinking; transpersonal; CBT Practitioner; phenomenology; Relational Thinking; Material Semiotic Actor; Physiological Responsivity; Personal Disorder; Pluralistic Therapy; British Object Relations Theory; Bias Elimination; Priori Energy; Positivism Privileges; Existential Participation; Participatory Thinking; Levinas’s Work; Vice Versa; Jung’s Work; Actual Conscious Life
Publication date: 08-2016
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Winner of the Theoretical Category of the American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize for best books published in 2016
Psychoanalysis Beyond the End of Metaphysics offers a new paradigm approach which advocates reengaging the importance of metaphysics in psychoanalytic theorizing. The emergence of the relational trend has witnessed a revitalizing influx of new ideas, reflecting a fundamental commitment to the principle of dialogue. However, the transition towards a more pluralistic discourse remains a work in progress, and those schools of thought not directly associated with the relational shift continue to play only a marginal role.
In this book, Robin S. Brown argues that for contemporary psychoanalysis to more adequately reflect a clinical ethos of pluralism, the field must examine the extent to which a theoretical commitment to the notion of relationship can grow restrictive. Suggesting that in the very effort to negotiate theoretical biases, psychoanalytic practice may occlude a more adequate recognition of its own evolving assumptions, Brown proposes that the profession?s advance requires a return to first principles. Arguing for the fundamental role played by faith in supporting the emergence of consciousness, this work situates itself at the crossroads of relational, Jungian, and transpersonal approaches to the psyche.
Psychoanalysis Beyond the End of Metaphysics will be of significant interest to all psychodynamically oriented clinicians, alongside scholars of depth psychology and the philosophy of mind. It will also be helpful to advanced and postgraduate students of psychoanalysis seeking to orient themselves in the field at present.
Robin S. Brown, Ph.D, is a psychoanalytic clinician, and a member of adjunct faculty for the clinical psychology department at Teachers College, Columbia University. He lives and works in New York City.