The Idea of the Past: History, Science, and Practice in American Psychoanalysis (Psychoanalytic Crosscurrents)
Language: English
Published by New York University Press, New York and London, 1993
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310pp., xix. '1' in number line. References. Name Index. Subject Index. Black boards with brilliant gilt-stamped lettering on spine. Glossy repeating, maze-like pattern of lavender and black on most of front cover, with title lettering in white over black of title box at upper left front cover. Flawless. (No previous owner names. Clean text.).
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- Title
- The Idea of the Past: History, Science, and Practice in American Psychoanalysis (Psychoanalytic Crosscurrents)
- Author
- Lamm, Leonard J.
- Publisher
- New York University Press, New York and London
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0814750737
- ISBN 13
- 9780814750735
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
The advancement of psychoanalysis in America has reached an impasse. Scientists are pitted against hermeneuticists, theorists against practitioners, and narrative truth against historical truth, reflecting and refracting the role of the past in theory and therapy through a host of competing approaches. Leonard Lamm argues against the impossible task of unifying psychoanalysis into a homogenous discourse, proposing instead the acceptance of a pluralist model in which different modes of discourse are applicable and appropriate in different circumstances.
This innovative work sets out to unravel the opaque idea of the psychoanalytic past as expressed in countless theoretical voices, from object relations to Lacanianism to ego psychology. Dr. Lamm redraws the map of American psychoanalytic argument and takes a fresh look at current debates on narrative truth, metapsychology, and the role of the past in psychoanalysis.
A thoughtful model emerges in which historical, scientific, and practical discourses and constructions of the past do not compose a hierarchy in psychoanalytic understanding. Instead, they are voices in a conversation in which they may differ without disagreeing.
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