In a stunning fusion of literary criticism and intellectual
history, Peter L. Rudnytsky explores the dialectical interplay
between literature and psychoanalysis by reading key psychoanalytic
texts in a variety of genres. He maps the origins of the
contemporary relational tradition in the lives and work of three of
Freud's most brilliant and original disciples Otto Rank, Sandor
Ferenczi, and Georg Groddeck. Rudnytsky, a scholar with an
unsurpassed knowledge of the world of clinical psychoanalysis,
espouses the "relational turn" as an alternative to both ego
psychology and postmodernism.
Rudnytsky seeks to alter the received view of the psychoanalytic
landscape, in which the towering figure of Freud has continued to
obscure the achievements of his followers who individually resisted
and collectively went beyond him. Reading Psychoanalysis offers the
most detailed and comprehensive treatments available in English of
such classic texts as Freud's case of Little Hans, Rank's The
Incest Theme in Literature and Legend, and Groddeck's The Book of
the It. Rudnytsky's argument for object relations theory concludes
by boldly affirming the possibility of a "consilience" between
scientific and hermeneutic modes of knowledge."
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