Through a detailed examination of a whole range of theoretical ideas and the use of clinical illustrations, the author shows the way in which the subjective organization both arises and is impaired; how unity is maintained but also undermined. The essential role of social structive in the subjective
Psychoanalysis: A Theory of the Human Subject
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- Publisher
- Austin Macauley Publishers
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 148
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
When humans became conscious of their existence as objects in the world, their nature proved to be an enigma. It kept thinkers and philosophers--for centuries--busy dealing with its mystery. In all the impressive efforts made by great thinkers, there was always a missing element that prevented a full closure on its makeup. Late in the nineteenth century when Freud was experimenting with psychotherapy, he discovered and established the existence of unconscious processes that permeate the subject's psychological life. They coexisted in every conscious and cognitive human activity and made it difficult to understand the nature of the subject as a simple entity. Freud and some talented coworkers made strides in discovering the nature of the subject. However, they did not realize that they were building a theory of the human subject. Because they were working in the field of psychotherapy and mental health, psychoanalysis was thus branded a technique of psychotherapy. This book is of the view that psychoanalysis is a theory of the human subject, which could have a psychotherapeutic facet. Few psychical features of the human subject were chosen in this book to be explained in their psychoanalytic capacity. Psychoanalysis was also discussed as an act of treating the subject, not some isolated and separate attributes of it.
β¦ Table of Contents
Psychoanalysis: A Theory of the Human Subject
About The Author
Dedication
Copyright Information Β©
Preface
Introduction
Point of View
Chapter One
Functionalism and Structuralism in Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis: Learning or Training?
Chapter Two
Psychoanalysis: The Issue of Its Subject Matter
A Brief Account of Misguided Efforts
The Gradual Birth of the Subject
The Subject in Philosophy
The Need for a Theory of the Subject
The Intrapsychic and the Subject
Chapter Three
The Roots of Psychoanalysis in Philosophy
The Search for an Origin for Psychoanalysis
A Brief Account of the Western Philosophical Movement
The Cogito and the Subjects
The Forerunners of Psychoanalysis
Conclusion
Chapter Four
The Subjectβs Basic Duality and Narcissism
I and Me
The Place of Psychoanalysis in Epistemology
I, Me, and the Other
The Counterpart and the Particularity of the Psychoanalytic Theory
The Counterpart and the Intrapsychic
Chapter Five
The Psychology of the Wish
The Wish as the Prototype of the Psyche
Thinking in Functional and Structural Theories
Dreams and Wish Fulfillment
The Interpretation of Wish
The Wish and Its Antithesis
Chapter Six
Sexuality and the Trieb (Instinct)
Sex as Trieb
The Libido Theory: Problem or Solution
Sexuality and the Wish
Chapter Seven
The Duality of Life and Death
A Basis for Narcissism
Life and Death of Trieben and Narcissism
A Brief Account of the Myth Goes Like This
Back to Psychoanalysis
Addendum
Chapter Eight
The Subject and the Unconscious
The Aconscious
The Puzzling Unconscious
The Solution of the Puzzle
Chapter Nine
Reconstituting the Subject
The Subject Matter of Psychoanalysis
The Subject in a Structural Theory
1. I and Me Duality
2. The Manifest and the Latent Duality
3. The Conscious-Unconscious Duality
Chapter Ten
Psychoanalysis: A Science of the Subject
The New Subject of Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis: Skill (Practice) or Science (Education)?
The New Subject of Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis as a Human Science
Psychoanalysis and Research
Chapter Eleven
Psychoanalyzing and Psychotherapy
The Essentials of Psychoanalyzing
Interpretation and Reconstruction
The Freudian Clinical Protocol in Perspective
The Conditions of Psychoanalyzing
Freudβs Insight and the Issue of Training
Epilogue
Modern Psychoanalysis and the Issue of Training
Psychoanalysis and Academia
Index
References
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