Psychoanalytic interpretation, according to the hermeneutic view,
is concerned with meaning rather than facts or causes. In this
provocative book, Elyn R. Saks focuses closely on what hermeneutic
psychoanalysis is and how the approaches of hermeneutic
psychoanalysts differ. She finds that although these psychoanalysts
use the same words, concepts, images, and analogies, they hold to
at least five different positions on the truth of psychoanalytic
interpretations. Saks locates within these five models the thought
of such prominent analysts as Roy Schafer, Donald Spence, and
George Klein. Then, approaching each model from the patient's point
of view, the author reaches important conclusions about treatments
that patients not only will -- but should -- reject.
If patients understood the true nature of the various models of
hermeneutic psychoanalysis, Saks argues, they would spurn the story
model, which asks patients to believe interpretations that do not
purport to be true; that is, the psychoanalyst simply tells stories
that give meaning to patients' lives, the truth of which is not
considered relevant. And patients would question the metaphor and
the interpretations-as-literary-criticism models, which propose
views of psychoanalysis that may be unsatisfying. In addition to
discussing which hermeneutic models of treatment are plausible,
Saks discusses the nature of metaphorical truth. She arrives at
some penetrating insights into the theory of psychoanalysis
itself.
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