2013 Goethe Award Winner! This is the first book of its kind to
offer a sustained critique of contemporary psychoanalytic thought
favoring relational, postmodern, and intersubjective perspectives,
which largely define American psychoanalysis today. Conundrums
turns an eye toward the philosophical underpinnings of contemporary
theory; its theoretical relation to traditional psychoanalytic
thought; clinical implications for therapeutic practice; political
and ethical ramifications of contemporary praxis; and its
intersection with points of consilience that emerge from these
traditions. Central arguments and criticisms advanced throughout
the book focus on operationally defining the key tenets of
contemporary perspectives; the seduction and ambiguity of
postmodernism; the question of selfhood and agency; illegitimate
attacks on classical psychoanalysis; the role of therapeutic
excess; contemporary psychoanalytic politics; and the question of
consilience between psychoanalysis as a science versus
psychoanalysis as part of the humanities. The historical criticisms
against psychoanalysis are further explored in the context of the
current philosophical-scientific binary that preoccupies the field.
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