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The Unconscious: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis) - Softcover

Book 16 of 34: Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Newirth, Joseph

 
9780367525170: The Unconscious: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367525178 ISBN 13: 9780367525170
Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

In The Unconscious: A Contemporary Introduction, Joseph Newirth presents a critical and comparative analysis of the unconscious and its evolution from a positivist to a postmodern frame of reference.

This book presents five theories, each of which offers different and important conceptualizations of the unconscious, and each of which contains a rich palate of ideas through which to approach clinical work. These psychoanalytic theories are thought of as spokes on a wheel emanating from the center of Freud’s concept of the unconscious. In addition to presenting Freud’s development of the unconscious, Newirth includes discussions of interpersonal/relational psychoanalysis; developmental approaches to the unconscious, including Kohut, Winnicott, and Fonagy; Kleinian approaches to the unconscious; and linguistic theories of the unconscious including Matte Blanco and Lacan. The last chapter illustrates the use of contemporary psychoanalytic concepts in the clinical work with a contemporary patient. The book encourages a comparative view of psychoanalytic theory and technique and aims to move to a more useful, generalizable concept of the unconscious for the contemporary patient.

This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychologists, and anyone interested in the evolution and application of the unconscious as a concept.

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About the Author

Joseph Newirth is Professor Emeritus at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, USA. He is on the faculty of several psychoanalytic institutes and was the Director of the Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis at Adelphi University. His previous books received the Gradiva Prize (2004) and the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize (2019). He is currently in practice in New York City.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367525178
ISBN 13 
9780367525170
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
124