Beyond Postmodernism

Beyond Postmodernism identifies ways in which psychoanalysis has moved beyond the postmodern debate and discusses how this can be applied to contemporary practice. Roger Frie and Donna Orange bring together many of the leading authorities on psychoanalytic theory and practice to provide a broad scope of psychoanalytic viewpoints and perspectives on the growing interdisciplinary discourse between psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, social theory and philosophy of mind. Divided into two parts, Psychoanalytic Encounters with Postmodernism and Psychoanalysis Beyond Postmodernism, this book: elaborates and clarifies aspects of the postmodern turn in psychoanalysis furthers an interdisciplinary perspective on clinical theory and practice contributes to new understandings of theory and practice beyond postmodernism. Beyond Postmodernism: New Dimensions in Clinical Theory and Practice provides a fresh perspective on the relationship between psychoanalysis and postmodernism and raises new issues for the future. It will be of interest to practicing psychoanalysts and psychologists as well as students interested in psychoanalysis, postmodernism and philosophy.

ISBN 0415466881   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780415466882 (What's this?)   Pages 256 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint Routledge   Weight (grammes) 408 Format Paperback   Published in London Publication date 29 Jan 2009   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress 2008032520   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 150.195   Academic level Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate

Introduction		Coherence or fragmentation? Modernism, postmodernism, and the search for continuity by Roger Frie		1
Pt. I		Psychoanalytic encounters with postmodernism		25
1		Postmodern influences on contemporary psychoanalysis by Morris N. Eagle		27
2		Multiplicity and relational psychoanalysis: a Heideggerian response by Jon Frederickson		52
3		A strange convergence: postmodern theory, infant research, and psychoanalysis by Judith Guss Teicholz		69
4		Primary process of deconstruction: towards a Derridian psychotherapy by Heward Wilkinson		92
Pt. II		Psychoanalysis beyond postmodernism		115
5		Toward the art of the living dialogue: between constructivism and hermeneutics in psychoanalytic thinking by Donna Orange		117
6		Trauma and human existence: the mutual enrichment of Heidegger's existential analytic and a psychoanalytic understanding of trauma by Robert D. Stolorow		143
7		Reconfiguring psychological agency: postmodernism, recursivity, and the politics of change by Roger Frie		162
8		Attitudes in psychoanalytic complexity: an alternative to postmodernism in psychoanalysis by William J. Coburn		183
9		Identity, identification, imagination: psychoanalysis and modern European thought after the postmodern turn by Anthony Elliott		201
10		Naturalizing relational psychoanalytic theory by Arnold H. Modell		220
		Postscript: from postmodern skepticism to the search for psychoanalytic understanding by Donna Orange		231
		Index		237

'The initial deconstructive phase of postmodernism served the important function of waking psychoanalysis from its dogmatic slumber. By criticizing the objectivism, scientism and authoritarianism of the reigning paradigm, it opened the field to the sort of fundamental debate it had not witnessed in decades, and introduced a new openness and pluralism among analysts. But that initial phase has run its course, and the ritualistic repetition of deconstructive tropes has become a tiresome exercise. What is required now is a reconstructive phase that would ask the hard and unavoidable questions that arise after critique has done its work. Today we must ask what objectivity can mean after the critique of objectivism, what sciences can mean after the critique of scientism, what authority can mean after the critique of authoritarianism and what asymmetry means after the critique of one-person psychology. The rich collection of papers by well-known psychoanalytic theorists published in this volume makes an excellent contribution to this task. Let the heavy lifting begin.' Joel Whitebook, Faculty, The Columbia University Center For Psychoanalytic Training and Research

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