Past scholars have tried to classify psychoanalysis as an
intrinsically positivist science, with varying degrees of success.
Their critics have fared little better with narrow applications of
postmodern thought, which focus on smaller areas within
psychoanalysis and, as a result, neglect the evolution of the
discipline as a whole.
In an effort to provide a ground for current psychoanalytic
thought, Mark Leffert creates an interreferential schema which
balances the influences of postmodernism, complexity theory, and
neuroscience as its key factors. Using the heterogeneity of
postmodern thought as a starting point, he traces its impact on and
implications for the development of the discipline, leading into
the realm of complexity theory which is relatively new to the
psychoanalytic literature and how it informs as well as constrains
certain psychoanalytic assumptions. The book then turns to
neuroscience, the "hard" scientific study of the complexities of
the brain, and how recent research informs psychoanalytic theory
and may shed light on aspects of memory, the conscious, and the
unconscious. Taken together, these three elements create a firm
basis for the current trends in psychoanalysis and the direction of
its development in the years to come.
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