Misunderstanding Freud

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Author:

Goldberg, Arnold, 1929-

ISBN:

9781590511121

Personal Author:

Goldberg, Arnold, 1929-

Publication Information:

New York : Other Press, c2004.

Physical Description:

xviii, 233 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Pt. I. From misunderstanding to understanding -- Ch. 1. Misunderstanding Freud -- Ch. 2. Gaps, barriers and splits : the psychoanalytic search for connection -- Pt. II. From understanding to enactment to interpretation -- Ch. 3. Psychoanalysis as an understanding psychology -- Ch. 4. Understanding others -- Ch. 5. Enactment as understanding and as misunderstanding -- Ch. 6. Form versus content -- Pt. III. From interpretation to a place for the mind -- Ch. 7. Interpretation is it : there is no beyond -- Ch. 8. An inquiry into the nature of psychoanalytic data -- Ch. 9. The mutuality of meaning -- Ch. 10. Representation in psychoanalysis and the place of the mind -- Pt. IV. No single answer -- Ch. 11. Postmodern psychoanalysis -- Ch. 12. Me and Max : a misalliance of goals -- Ch. 13. A world of possibilities : two philosophic approaches to psychoanalysis -- App. An odd couple : Martin Heidegger and Heinz Kohut.

Personal Subject:

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Kohut, Heinz.

Subject Term:

Psychoanalysis.

Self psychology.

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Summary

The theme of this book is that of a rescue operation. The victim is psychoanalysis, in danger of potential demise as a result of its flirtation with the neurosciences, the relationists, and the numerous other efforts to improve upon or recast the fundamental thesis of psychoanalysis, which is the effort of one person, the analyst, to understand another person, the patient. Not surprisingly, the threat to understanding is misunderstanding: this threat begins with all who have misunderstood Freud and includes those who insist that psychoanalysis is something other than this major effort of understanding. Goldberg's approach to the elaboration of this theme is to undo the dualisms that infect all of psychoanalysis: explanation vs. understanding, mind vs. brain, subject vs. object, form vs. content, etc. The author takes on each of these supposed points of opposition and demonstrates how they act as a conceptual straitjacket, forcing us to conform to what they propose. whatever works best on any given occasion. alongside philosophy in order to help psychoanalysis embark upon a newer and freer adventure, one that releases it from various efforts to either reduce psychoanalysis to a stepchild of the neurosciences or to a cousin of social psychology. Bringing together the contributions of Heinz Kohut and Martin Heidegger may seem like an impossible feat, but the author carefully points out how Kohut's concept of the selfobject is in fact the crucial theoretical underpinning to properly position today's psychoanalysis alongside of the philosophy of Heidegger. In his Appendix, Goldberg shows the interdigitation of the ideas of these two great thinkers.