"The Western world has tired of Freud. His propositions and methods
are deemed outdated. I reject such sentiments and this book is an
attempt to explain why. I will do this in two stages. First, I want
to introduce a new reading of Freud and second, I want to expose
the paradox that lies at the kernel of his life's endeavour.Once I
have established Freud as a practitioner rather than a scientist I
will explain the notion of a theory of practice with its tripartite
components of theoretical premises, technique and aim.Freud's
psychoanalytic theory of practice has as its kernel the etching out
of the dimensions of human subjectivity. This I will explore
through a brief presentation of the work of the contemporary
academic and practitioner Paul Verhaeghe whose project I will show
to be a direct inheritance of the Freudian theory of
practice.Finally I propose that while the scientific enterprise may
be seen to offer much to the contemporary way of life it
nevertheless necessarily excludes the very notion of the human
subject. Its focus is none other than the human object.
Paradoxically, what many see as Freud's failure--to make
psychoanalysis a science--is nothing less than his greatest
success. He offers us a possible route to repositioning ourselves
today."- From the author's Introduction
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