Meaning, mind, and self-transformation psychoanalytic interpretation and the interpretation of psychoanalysis - Schermer, Victor L. (Karnac, 2014)
COVER; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; FOREWORD; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE; CHAPTER ONE Psychoanalysis at a crossroads: between science and humanism-a path to understanding; PART I INTERPRETING INTERPRETATION: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HERMENEUTICS; CHAPTER TWO Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, ancient and modern thought, and the hermeneutics of Greek antiquity and Judaic sources; CHAPTER THREE Romantic era hermeneutics; CHAPTER FOUR Twentieth-century Continental philosophy: Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida; PART II HERMENEUTICS IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY.
CHAPTER FIVE The psychoanalytic situation: scientific "laboratory" or interpretive process?CHAPTER SIX Dimensions and dualities: the architecture of psychoanalytic interpretation; CHAPTER SEVEN Hermeneutics in the unfolding process; CHAPTER EIGHT Interpretation and self-transformation; PART III PARADIGMS OF CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYTIC UNDERSTANDING; CHAPTER NINE Melanie Klein: the phenomenology of the unconscious; CHAPTER TEN Donald Winnicott: the infant's being-in-the-world; CHAPTER ELEVEN Self psychology, intersubjectivity, and relational psychoanalysis: "American originals."
CHAPTER TWELVE Bion's psychoanalytic work: from positivism and Kant to psychospirituality and beyondCHAPTER THIRTEEN Psychoanalysis and neuroscience: an uneasy marriage; REFERENCES; INDEX.
This book will elucidate the scientific, philosophical, and hermeneutical basis of contemporary psychoanalysis and its key methodology, interpretation, with an aim to clarifying the prevailing diversity of theoretical perspectives. Psychoanalysis today is at a crossroads, where to remain a viable approach to psychotherapy and human understanding, it must come to terms with its own nature and place in the world. The central element of psychoanalytic process is interpretation of the unconscious meaning of the patient's free associations and transference. Interpretation, the basis of all techniqu