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The Prisonhouse of Psychoanalysis (Hardcover, New)
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The Prisonhouse of Psychoanalysis (Hardcover, New)
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In The Prisonhouse of Psychoanalysis, Arnold Goldberg trains a
searching, critical eye on his own profession. His subject matter
is the system of interlocking constraints - theoretical,
institutional, educational - that imprisons psychoanalysis and the
psychoanalyst. His agenda is to sketch the shape analysis might
take in the absence of these constraints. What emerges from these
twin endeavors is a penetrating critique of psychoanalysis from the
inside - from the vantage point of a senior analyst who has labored
for many years within the prisonhouse that he now criticizes. In
proffering an alternative vision of psychoanalysis, Goldberg
ventures into recent literature in epistemology, philosophy of
science, cognitive psychology, and the neurosciences, so that one
valuable byproduct of his work is a brilliant application of
insights culled from these fields to the question of what analysis
is, and what it may yet become. His examination of "psychoanalysis
without foundations" challenges the ability of infancy research
data and neurological findings, respectively, to provide an
empirical rock bottom from which psychoanalytic theory-building can
proceed. His chapter on "psychoanalysis without representations"
reviews the analytic literature on the latter concept, only to show
how recent theories of brain processing, including connectionism,
provides a basis for understanding mental phenomena without any
intermediary representations. Finally, his vision of
"psychoanalysis without a subject" assesses recent findings about
the nature of memory, insights of contemporary philosophy, and
Kohut's notion of the selfobject as converging tributaries that
make possible an analysis that dispenses with the conventional
dichotomy of subject and object.
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