Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures
- 1 Phenomenology and psychoanalysis
- 2 The life-world as the ground for sciences
- 3 A critical examination of neuropsychoanalysis
- 4 The conceptualization of the psychical in psychoanalysis
- 5 The libido as the core of the unconscious
- 6 The grounding of libido in the life-world experience
- 7 Beyond the pleasure principle: the affirmation of existence
- 8 The question of truth claims in psychoanalysis
- Concluding remarks
- References
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures
- 1 Phenomenology and psychoanalysis
- 2 The life-world as the ground for sciences
- 3 A critical examination of neuropsychoanalysis
- 4 The conceptualization of the psychical in psychoanalysis
- 5 The libido as the core of the unconscious
- 6 The grounding of libido in the life-world experience
- 7 Beyond the pleasure principle: the affirmation of existence
- 8 The question of truth claims in psychoanalysis
- Concluding remarks
- References
- Index
Summary
Know thyself
Inscription at DelphiDon't be ashamed that you are human, be proud!
Within you, vault opens up behind vault ad infinitum.
Never will you be finished, and that's as it ought to be.
Tomas Tranströmer For the living and the deadPsychoanalysis has been pronounced dead a number of times, despite its short history within the scientific field of study. Psychoanalysis has not only been dismissed due to its alleged lack of scientific character. Per Magnus Johansson (1997: 10) provides a sample of some of the other types of accusations that have been made against the psychoanalytic method:
Psychoanalysis has, during its hundred year old history … among other things, been accused of: pansexualism, encouraging sexual frivolity, being a Jewish science, for possibly being more suitable to the people of Southern Europe, but hardly applicable to those living in Northern Europe. It has also been assumed to be suitable to the Nordic population but not the Latin. Psychoanalysis has been criticised for exclusively analysing and being applicable to upper-class women, and for being captive to an oppressive patriarchal system, for being a bourgeois science. It has also been criticised for being too time-consuming and expensive, for being unscientific and for not having any evident therapeutic effect, and even for being harmful and dangerous.
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- Psychoanalysis in a New Light , pp. ix - xviiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010