ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |23 pages

Introduction

Coherence or fragmentation? Modernism, postmodernism, and the search for continuity

part I|90 pages

Psychoanalytic encounters with postmodernism

chapter Chapter 2|17 pages

Multiplicity and relational psychoanalysis

A Heideggerian response

chapter Chapter 3|23 pages

A strange convergence

Postmodern theory, infant research, and psychoanalysis

chapter Chapter 4|23 pages

Primary process of deconstruction

Towards a Derridian psychotherapy

part II|116 pages

Psychoanalysis beyond postmodernism

chapter Chapter 5|26 pages

Towards the art of the living dialogue

Between constructivism and hermeneutics in psychoanalytic thinking

chapter Chapter 6|19 pages

Trauma and human existence

The mutual enrichment of Heidegger's existential analytic and a psychoanalytic understanding of trauma

chapter Chapter 7|21 pages

Reconfiguring psychological agency

Postmodernism, recursivity, and the politics of change

chapter Chapter 8|18 pages

Attitudes in psychoanalytic complexity

An alternative to postmodernism in psychoanalysis

chapter Chapter 9|19 pages

Identity, identification, imagination

Psychoanalysis and modern European thought after the postmodern turn