"Vitally important .for those interested in psychoanalysis Many
have questioned, and rightly so, the relevance of psychoanalysis
for the new millenium. It is the richest of the psychological
disciplines, and yet has come close to relegating itself to an
intellectual and clinical antiquity due to its arrogance, suspicion
of new ideas, and tribal social nature. This volume is a necessary
and powerful corrective to psychoanalytic blindness. Jeffrey Rubin
offers psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts a new vision that
preserves the powerful, unique contribution of the discipline while
instilling a humane, receptive, and intellectually vital
perspective on the field and its endeavors."
--"Jerry Gold, Ph.D."
"By examining and confronting both psychoanalysis' strengths and
its blind spots, this beautifully written and visionary book points
the way toward a posthumanistic psychoanalysis characterized by
self-reflectiveness, diversity, and an enormous emancipatory
potential. A Psychoanalysis for Our Time is a breath of fresh air
for all who are interested in the revitalization of contemporary
psychoanalysis."
"aRobert D. Stolorow, coauthor of Working Intersubjectively"
Does psychoanalysis have a future?
Psychoanalysis is not a relic of a bygone era, argues Jeffrey B.
Rubin in A Psychoanalysis for Our Time. Rather, it has profound
relevance for our troubled time.
Steering a balanced course between Freud's virulent attackers
and his loyalist defenders, Rubin discerns both blind spots and
hidden strengths in psychoanalysis. He reveals its covert
authoritarianism, Byzantine politics, censorship of dissident
thinkers, residual sexism, and overly simplistic accounts of self.
APsychoanalysis for Our Time does not only cogently critique
psychoanalysis, however; it also offers a visionary approach for
its renewal, based on cultivating greater historical, theoretical,
and methodological self-awareness within psychoanalysis.
Drawing on history, deconstructionism, feminism, anthropology,
and Eastern meditative disciplines, Rubin portrays a psychoanalysis
that is self-reflective and non-authoritarian, pluralistic and
emancipatory. Encyclopedic in scope, integrative in spirit, A
Psychoanalysis for Our Time is a brilliant and landmark work.
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