The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy

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"The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy provides a rich panoramic view of what philosophy offers or disturbs in psychoanalysis and what it represents for psychoanalytic theory and practice. The thirty-three chapters present a broad range of interfaces and reciprocities between various aspects of psychoanalysis and philosophy. It demonstrates the vital connection between the two disciplines: psychoanalysis cannot make any practical sense if it is not entirely perceived within a philosophical context. Written by a team of world-leading experts, including established scholars, psychoanalysts and emerging talents, the Handbook investigates and discusses the psychoanalytic schools and their philosophical underpinning, as well as contemporary applied topics. Organized into five sections, this volume investigates and discusses how psychoanalysis stands in relation to leading philosophies such as Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Kant; philosophical perspectives on psychoanalytic schools such as Freud, Klein, Bion, Kohut, and Lacan; how psychoanalysis addresses controversial topics in philosophy such as truth, language and symbolism, ethics, and theories of mind. The last section addresses contemporary applied subjects in psychoanalytic thought: colonialism, gender, race, and ecology. This Handbook offers a novel and comprehensive outlook vital for scholars, philosophers, practicing psychoanalysts and therapists alike. The book will serve as a source for courses in psychoanalysis, philosophy of science, epistemology, ethics, semiotics, cognitive science, consciousness, gender, race, post-colonialism theories, clinical theory, Freud's studies, both in universities and psychoanalytic training programs and institutes"--

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Part One: Philosophical systems and psychoanalysis. Kant and psychoanalysis. Hegel and psychoanalysis. Nietzsche and psychoanalysis. Wittgenstein and psychoanalysis. Heidegger and psychoanalysis. Derrida and psychoanalysis.
Part Two: Psychoanalytic schools and their philosophical perspectives. Psychoanalytic schools. Freud and philosophy. The philosophy of classical psychoanalysis. The philosophy of Melanie Klein. The philosophy of Wilfred Bion. The philosophy of ego psychology. The philosophy of Donald Winnicott. The philosophy of self-psychology. The philosophy of intersubjective/interpersonal/relational. The philosophy of Lacan. The philosophy of Jung.
Part Three: Philosophical debates. How did the meaning of truth change throughout psychoanalytic history? What does it mean to know that something is true? What are the truths that psychoanalysis relates to and that relate to psychoanalysis? How did postmodern relativism and its intellectual pluralism influence psychoanalytic theory, technique and discourse? What is the current scientific status of psychoanalysis? How do philosophy and psychoanalysis inform each other regarding theories of mind, common sense psychology, meaning, consciousness, subjectivity, irrationality, intentionality, will, dreams and emotions? Is speech primarily a medium of psychoanalysis or a mechanism that participates in therapeutic action? What is the relation between trauma and language? Can poetry reveal the action of the verbal therapeutic process? What is the role of metaphoric thought in psychoanalytic discourse? How psychoanalytic theory influences moral philosophy through concepts such as moral authenticity, emotions and agency. The maintenance of boundaries in psychoanalytic encounter. Studying professional ethics in a psychoanalytic institute. The commitment to observing and processing countertransference as a major ethical obligation in psychoanalytic practice. Ethical obligations of psychoanalytic institutes to candidates and students. The "ethical turn" and phenomenological intersubjectivity. Witnessing as a distinct function of the therapist and as a curative element in psychoanalytic treatment.
Part Four: Applied subjects. Colonialism. Postcolonialism. The Primitive in Freud's Anthropological Texts. Racism. Franz Fanon. Anti-Semitism.