Betty Cannon is the first to explore the implications of Sartrean
philosophy for the Freudian psychoanalytic tradition. Drawing upon
Sartre's work as well as her own experiences as a practicing
therapist, she shows that Sartre was a "fellow traveler" who
appreciated Freud's psychoanalytic achievements but rebelled
against the determinism of his metatheory.
The mind, Sartre argued, cannot be reduced to a collection of
drives and structures, nor is it enslaved to its past as Freud's
work suggested. Sartre advocated an existentialist psychoanalysis
based on human freedom and the self's ability to reshape its own
meaning and value.
Through the Sartrean approach Cannon offers a resolution to the
crisis in psychoanalytic metatheory created by the current emphasis
on relational needs. By comparing Sartre with Freud and influential
post-Freudians like Melanie Klein, Otto Kernber, Margaret Mahler,
D.W. Winnicott, Heinz Kohut, Harry Stack Sullivan, and Jacques
Lacan, she demonstrates why the Sartrean model transcends the
limitations of traditional Freudian metatheory. In the process, she
adds a new dimension to our understanding of Sartre and his place
in twentieth-century philosophy.
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