How Philosophy Changed Psychoanalysis

Through this book, philosopher and psychoanalyst Aner Govrin demonstrates how psychoanalysis' engagement with philosophy formed a crucial factor in the evolution of new psychoanalytic theories in three areas: perception of truth, developmental theories, and study of psychoanalytic treatment.

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Aner Govrin is a psychoanalyst, philosopher, and clinical psychologist. He is the director of a doctoral program, Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics, at The Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, Bar-Ilan University. He is a Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TAICP) member and Editor of the series Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

Inhalt

Introduction: Is psychoanalysis a philosophy?

Part 1: How Philosophy Changed American Psychoanalysis?

Chapter 1: Freud's Compromising Positivism

Chapter 2: Classical Psychoanalysis

Chapter 3: Heinz Kohut's Self-Psychology

Postmodernism and Intersubjectivity

Chapter 4: The Intersubjective Approach

Chapter 5: The Relational Approach

Part 2: The Post-psychoanalytic Schools Era

Chapter 6: Back to Positivism: The Case of Neuropsychoanalysis

Chapter 7: Facts and Sensibilities: What Is a psychoanalytic Innovation?

Concluding Remarks