"Knowing, Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the
Experience of Uncertainty" is a contemporary, wide-ranging
exploration of one of the most provocative topics currently under
psychoanalytic investigation: the relationship of dissociation to
varieties of knowing and unknowing. As editor Jean Petrucelli
writes in her introductory overview of the anthology, Although
dissociation theory has existed side by side with the concept of
repression in the history of psychoanalytic thought, for many years
it was less examined, treated as if it belonged only to trauma
theory. Today, however, through the influence of relational models
of psychoanalysis, spearheaded by Bromberg s self-state theory,
dissociation is becoming more widely appreciated as a central
psychic mechanism pervading both normal and pathological
functioning. This anthology is certain to contribute further to our
appreciation of its importance.The twenty-eight essays collected
here invite readers to reflect upon the ways the mind is structured
around and through knowing, not-knowing, and sort-of-knowing or
uncertainty. The authors explore the ramifications of being up
against the limits of what they can know as through their clinical
practice and theoretical considerations, they simultaneously
attempt to open up psychic and physical experience. How, they ask,
do we tolerate ambiguity and blind spots as we try to know? And how
do we make all of this useful to our patients and ourselves?The
authors approach these and similar epistemological questions
through an impressively wide variety of clinical dilemmas (e.g.,
the impact of new technologies upon the analytic dyad) and
theoretical specialties (e.g., neurobiology). Some of the numerous
issues under examination here include important and, in some
instances, under-theorized topics in psychoanalysis such as uncanny
communication as the next frontier of intersubjectivity, secrets,
criminal violence, the relationship of the body to knowing,
disclosure of the analyst s joy, dissociative identity disorder,
pornography and sex workers.Contributing Authors: Edgar A.
Levenson, Philip M. Bromberg, Arnold H. Modell, Abby Stein, Sheldon
Itzkowitz, Elizabeth Howell, Elizabeth Hegeman, Peter Lessem, Jean
Petrucelli, Mark J. Blechner, Adam Phillips, Allan N. Schore, Wilma
S. Bucci, James L. Fosshage, Richard Chefetz, Sandra G. Herschberg,
Jessica Zucker, Katie Gentile, Janet Tintner, Jill Bressler, Barry
Cohen, Caryn Gorden, Susan Klebanoff, Joseph Canarelli, Rachel
Newcombe, Karen Weisbard, and Sandra Buechler."
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