Destructiveness, Intersubjectivity and Trauma : The Identity Crisis of Modern Psychoanalysis.
Title:
Destructiveness, Intersubjectivity and Trauma : The Identity Crisis of Modern Psychoanalysis.
Author:
Bohleber, Werner.
ISBN:
9781849407175
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (338 pages)
Series:
The Developments in Psychoanalysis Series
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About The Author -- Foreword by Peter Fonagy -- Introduction -- Part I: The Intersubjective Paradigm in Psychoanalysis and Late Modernity -- Chapter One: Intersubjectivity without a subject? Intersubjective theories and the Other -- Chapter Two: From surgeon to team-player: the transformation of guiding metaphors for the analytic relationship within clinical theory -- Chapter Three: Psychoanalytic theories of personality, adolescence, and the problem of identity in late modernity -- Part II: Trauma, Memory, and Historical Context -- Chapter Four: The development of trauma theory in psychoanalysis -- Chapter Five: Remembrance, trauma, and collective memory: the battle for memory in psychoanalysis -- Chapter Six: Traumatic memories, dissociative states, and reconstruction -- Part III: Psychoanalysis of Ideological Destructivity -- Chapter Seven: Purity, unity, violence: unconscious determinants of anti-Semitism in Germany -- Chapter Eight: Ideality and destructiveness: towards a psychodynamics of fundamentalist terrorist violence -- References.
Abstract:
'At last we have a book that provides a comprehensive overview and assessment of the intersubjective turn in psychoanalysis, showing its logical and clinical limitations and exploring its social and cultural determinants. Bohleber emphasizes the clinical importance of real traumatic experience along with the analysis of the transference as he reviews and broadens psychoanalytic theories of memory in relation to advances in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Psychoanalytic ideas on personality, adolescence and identity are re-thought and updated. Bohleber brilliantly presents a unique understanding of malignant narcissism and prejudice in relation to European anti-Semitism and to contemporary religiously inspired terrorist violence.'- Cyril Levitt, Dr Phil, Professor and former Chair Department of Sociology, McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario. Psychoanalyst in private practice, Toronto, Ontario.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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