The Freudian Metaphor - Toward Paradigm Change in Psychoanalysis

Until recently, psychoanalysis has been a most reluctant recipient of the new inheritance. For most of its century-long life it has clung to the positivist epistemology of Freud, its founding genius, belying his hope that his followers would be as skeptical about received wisdom in their time as he was in his. Psychoanalysis has protected itself from change by preserving its store of founding metaphors in their original form.

About the author

Jerome Bruner is currently Research Professor of Psychology and Senior Research Fellow, School of Law at New York University.

Product details

• Authors: Donald P. Spence
• Assisted by: Bruner Jerome (Foreword)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2010
• EAN: 9780393332421
• ISBN: 978-0-393-33242-1
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis, PHILOSOPHY / Hermeneutics, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)