ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis is not the only discipline that has been on the defensive for some time. Humanities departments have been scaled down throughout the world (Nussbaum 2010), and the question of the value of humanistic knowledge has become quite pressing. Meanwhile, the natural sciences have gobbled up all the prestige. As a result, many authors in psychoanalysis in particular (e.g., Phillips 1996) and the humanities in general have tended to frame the debate as a zero-sum game: either the humanities are in some way superior to the natural sciences, which are then often caricatured as soulless enterprises, or the humanities are doomed to extinction.
