At last we have a book that provides a comprehensive overview and assessment of the intersubjective turn in psychoanalysis, showing its logical and clinical limitations and exploring its social and cultural determinants. Bohleber emphasizes the clinical importance of real traumatic experience along with the analysis of the transference as he reviews and broadens psychoanalytic theories of memory in relation to advances in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Psychoanalytic ideas on personality, adolescence and identity are re-thought and updated. Bohleber brilliantly presents a unique understanding of malignant narcissism and prejudice in relation to European anti-Semitism and to contemporary religiously inspired terrorist violence.'- Cyril Levitt, Dr Phil, Professor and former Chair Department of Sociology, McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario. Psychoanalyst in private practice, Toronto, Ontario

'At last we have a book that provides a comprehensive overview and assessment of the intersubjective turn in psychoanalysis, showing its logical and clinical limitations and exploring its social and cultural determinants. Bohleber emphasizes the clinical importance of real traumatic experience along with the analysis of the transference as he reviews and broadens psychoanalytic theories of memory in relation to advances in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Psychoanalytic ideas on personality, adolescence and identity are re-thought and updated. Bohleber brilliantly presents a unique understanding of malignant narcissism and prejudice in relation to European anti-Semitism and to contemporary religiously inspired terrorist violence.'- Cyril Levitt, Dr Phil, Professor and former Chair Department of Sociology, McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario. Psychoanalyst in private practice, Toronto, Ontario

Psychoanalyse war nie eine monolithische Wissenschaft. Freud hatte seine Erkenntnisse zwar immer wieder ausgeweitet, revidiert und prazisiert, er hat aber an einer einheitlichen Theorie festgehalten. Die fruhen Kontroversen mundeten oft in einen Streit um die Reinheit der Lehre, wodurch die Psychoanalyse in einer Orthodoxie zu erstarren drohte. Aus diesen Verhaltnissen heraus hat sich die Psychoanalyse in den letzten funfzig Jahren zu einer Wissenschaft entwickelt, die den Pluralismus ihrer Theorien akzeptiert. Der Autor zeichnet die Kontroversen um zentrale Konzepte und Schlusselbegriffe nach, betont aber, dass die Psychoanalyse Asueinandersetzungen und die Suche nach Koharenz braucht, damit nicht unvereinbare Positionen nebeneinander stehen bleiben.