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Looking for Ground - Countertransference and the Problem of Value in Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
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Looking for Ground - Countertransference and the Problem of Value in Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series
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Despite a half-century of literature documenting the experience and
meanings of countertransference in analytic practice, the concept
remains a source of controversy. For Peter Carnochan, this can be
addressed only by revisiting historical, epistemological, and moral
issues intrinsic to the analytic enterprise. Looking for Ground is
the first attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of
countertransference on the basis of a contemporary reappraisal of
just such foundational assumptions. Carnochan begins by reviewing
the history of the psychoanalytic encounter and how it has been
accompanied by changes in the understanding of countertransference.
He skillfully delineates the complexities that underlie Freud's
apparent proscription of countertransference before tracing the
broadening of the concept in the hands of later theorists. Part II
examines the problem of epistemology in contemporary analytic
practice. The answer to this apparent quandary, he holds, resides
in a contemporary appreciation of affect, which, rather than merely
limiting or skewing perception, forms an essential "promontory" for
human knowing. The final section of Looking for Ground takes up
what Carnochan terms the "moral architecture" of psychoanalysis.
Rejecting the claim that analysis operates in a realm outside
conventional accounts of value, he argues that the analytic
alternative to traditional moralism is not tantamount to
emancipation from the problem of morality. With wide-ranging
scholarship and graceful writing, Carnochan refracts the major
theoretical and clinical issues at stake in contemporary
psychoanalytic debates through the lens of countertransference -
its history, its evolution, its philosophical ground, its moral
dimensions. He shows how the examination of countertransference
provides a unique and compelling window through which to apprehend
and reappraise those basic claims at the heart of the
psychoanalytic endeavor.
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