Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis
eBook - ePub

Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis

On the Primacy of Authenticity

  1. 314 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis

On the Primacy of Authenticity

About this book

In this brilliant and revolutionary collection of 14 major essays that draw from more than 25 years of painstaking research, M. Guy Thompson regales us with a stunning revisioning of conventional psychoanalysis that deepens our understanding of the human condition.

Integrating the most seminal existentialist philosophers, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre, with the most forward-thinking psychoanalysts over the past century, including Freud, Laing, Bion, Winnicott, and Lacan, Thompson offers a profound yet deeply personal vision of what psychoanalysis can be in the 21st century. In this fascinating volume, Thompson explores such concepts as experience, authenticity, will, happiness, and agency by utilizing a wide range of thinkers, including the ancient Greeks, but always in his singular voice. Exquisitely lucid and engaging to read, Thompson deftly lures us into thoughtful and enlightening territory typically inaccessible to the general reader.

This compelling integration of continental philosophy and psychoanalysis will be of interest not only to psychoanalytic practitioners of all persuasions, but to psychotherapists generally and their patients, as well as philosophers, social scientists, and any student of the human condition.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781003806431
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Psychoanalysis

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Series
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Permissions
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Preface: What Is the Existentialist Sensibility?
  11. 1 Sartre and Psychoanalysis: The Role of Freedom in the Clinical Encounter
  12. 2 Nietzsche and Psychoanalysis: The Fate of Authenticity in a Postmodernist World
  13. 3 Logos and Psychoanalysis: The Role of Truth and Creativity in Heidegger’s Conception of Language
  14. 4 What Is the Will? On the Role of Desire in Psychoanalysis
  15. 5 Vicissitudes of Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Situation
  16. 6 The Crisis of Experience in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
  17. 7 The Sceptic Dimension to Psychoanalysis
  18. 8 Happiness and Chance
  19. 9 Is the Unconscious Really All that Unconscious?
  20. 10 The Demise of the Person in the Psychoanalytic Situation
  21. 11 Deception, Mystification, Trauma: Laing and Freud
  22. 12 Free Association: A Technical Principle or Model for Psychoanalytic Education?
  23. 13 The Rule of Neutrality
  24. 14 The Existential Dimension to Working Through
  25. Index