A century years after the foundation of psychoanalysis it is
necessary to re-evaluate its position in the modern world and think
about its future. The editor of this volume is guided by the
conviction that psychoanalysis as a science of man is not only an
important therapeutic procedure whose innovations have provided new
insights into the human mind, but also a new and even more
significant contribution to a theory of culture and critique of
society. The authors discuss the various new developments in
therapeutic methods, and some of them refer to the discussions of
the New York Psychoanalytic Institute during the 1970s. In the
debates about a crisis of psychoanalysis which have been going on
in the psychoanalytical community since the 1980s, some have called
for renewed solidarity with the traditional paradigmata, others
demand radical reforms of the training methods and the ending of
the self-ghettoization of the psychoanalytic institutes. The
authors of this book provide a thoroughgoing investigation into the
nature of the crisis and propose ways to resolve it. They view the
prognosis for psychoanalysis as a profession as not particularly
brilliant and call for major changes in the rules of the
psychoanalytic institutes in order to give their members greater
freedom to form fresh ideas and discuss new adaptations of
therapeutic methods to meet the changing expectations of the modern
world. However, their prognosis for psychoanalysis as a human
science is more favourable, but they maintain that it will need a
great amount of determination and radical reforms for
psychoanalysis to act "as an important stimulant in cultural and
social developments" (Freud, 1924). What these reforms should look
like is one of the main themes discussed in this volume.
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