Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse: Knowing and Being Since Freud's Psychology - Couverture rigide

Barratt, Barnaby B.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801845475 ISBN 13 : 9780801845475

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993

Synopsis

According to Barratt, psychoanalytic theory and practice - which discloses "the interminable falsity of the human subject's belief in the mastery of its own mental life" - is in part responsible for the coming of the postmodern era. In this book, Barratt examines the role of psychoanalysis in what he sees as the crisis of modernism, shows why the modernist position - what he calls the "modern episteme" - is failing, and proposes that psychoanalysis should redefine itself as a postmodern method. In Barratt's account of psychoanalysis, which focuses on the significance of the free-associative process, Freud's discovery of the repressed unconscious leads to a claim that is basic to postmodern ideas: "that all thinking and speaking, the production and reproduction of psychic reality, is inherantly dynamic, polysemous and contradictorious". He argues that subsequent attempts to "normalize and systemize" psychanalysis are reactionary and antipsychoanalytic efforts to salvage the modern epistome that psychoanalysis itself calls into question.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801845475
• ISBN 13: 9780801845475
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
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