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This book celebrates and makes explicit the value of interchanges between the paradigm of science and philosophical hermeneutics. It is divided into three sections, preceded by a discussion of the relationship between psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and the sciences, with psychoanalysis at a crossroads seeking a new path.
List of contents
Foreword , Preface and Acknowledgments , An Introductory Note , Psychoanalysis at a crossroads: Between science and humanism—a path to understanding , Interpreting Interpretation: Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics , Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, ancient and modern thought, and the hermeneutics of Greek antiquity and Judaic sources , Romantic era hermeneutics , Twentieth-century Continental philosophy: Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida , Hermeneutics in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy , The psychoanalytic situation: Scientific “laboratory” or interpretive process? , Dimensions and dualities: The architecture of psychoanalytic interpretation , Hermeneutics in the unfolding process , Interpretation and self-transformation , Paradigms of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Understanding , Melanie Klein: The phenomenology of the unconscious , Donald Winnicott: the infant’s being-in-the-world , Self psychology, intersubjectivity, and relational psychoanalysis: “American originals” , Bion’s psychoanalytic work: From positivism and Kant to psychospirituality and beyond , Psychoanalysis and neuroscience: An uneasy marriage
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Victor L Schermer
Summary
This book celebrates and makes explicit the value of interchanges between the paradigm of science and philosophical hermeneutics. It is divided into three sections, preceded by a discussion of the relationship between psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and the sciences, with psychoanalysis at a crossroads seeking a new path.
