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Looking for Ground - Countertransference and the Problem of Value in Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
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Looking for Ground - Countertransference and the Problem of Value in Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
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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