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Plurality and Perspective in Psychoanalysis

by Adam Rosen-Carole
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780739169513
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books
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  • Pages: 586
  • Original Price: GBP 120.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 908 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Epistemology

Psychoanalysis is a historical discourse of suffering and healing under conditions of modernity rather than a metaphysical discourse of universal truth, and must be so due to the ontological indeterminacy of psychic life. Demonstrating this proceeds through the substantiation of two primary theses. First, pluralism in psychoanalysis, thus the perspectival character of psychoanalytic knowing, is irreducible. Second, psychic life is partially pliable to interpretive constitution rather than a self-subsistent object domain fully available to third-personal, objective description. Together, these theses provide the framework for a radical rethinking of the authority of psychoanalytic knowledge and practice and of the nature of psychoanalytic claims to objectivity. Psychoanalytic interpretations are best understood as existentially interrogative - they test who and how one might be - and if successful, to some extent identity formative. The validity conditions of psychoanalytic knowledge thus concern the creation/discovery of satisfactory forms of practice-orienting self-narration rather than those regularly operative in the natural sciences. However, an adequate assessment of psychoanalytic claims requires that the claims of science are given due consideration and the impediments to practice-orienting self-narration under conditions of late modernity are acknowledged.

Adam Rosen-Carole is a visiting assistant professor of social sciences and cultural studies at Pratt Institute. His research interests include modern European philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and feminist philosophy. He is the author of Lacan and Klein, Creation and Discovery (Lexington 2011), as well as a number of articles on political philosophy, psychoanalysis, and feminist philosophy in journals including The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, The European Journal of Psychoanalysis, Alternatives, Pli, The New Centennial Review, Ethical Perspectives, and Glossator.

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