World, Affectivity, Trauma

Zusatztext 80524574 Informationen zum Autor Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D. is a Founding Faculty Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, a Founding Faculty Member at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City; and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is the author of Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections (Routledge, 2007) and has coauthored four other books for the Analytic Press: Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice (1997), Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life (1992), Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach (1987), Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology (1984). Klappentext Stolorow and his collaborators' post-Cartesian psychoanalytic perspective - intersubjective-systems theory - is a phenomenological contextualism that illuminates worlds of emotional experience as they take form within relational contexts. After outlining the evolution and basic ideas of this framework, Stolorow shows both how post-Cartesian psychoanalysis finds enrichment and philosophical support in Heidegger's analysis of human existence, and how Heidegger's existential philosophy, in turn, can be enriched and expanded by an encounter with post-Cartesian psychoanalysis. In doing so, he creates an important psychological bridge between post-Cartesian psychoanalysis and existential philosophy in the phenomenology of emotional trauma. Zusammenfassung Stolorow and his collaborators' post-Cartesian psychoanalytic perspective - intersubjective-systems theory - is a phenomenological contextualism that illuminates worlds of emotional experience as they take form within relational contexts. After outlining the evolution and basic ideas of this framework! Stolorow shows both how post-Cartesian psychoanalysis finds enrichment and philosophical support in Heidegger's analysis of human existence! and how Heidegger's existential philosophy! in turn! can be enriched and expanded by an encounter with post-Cartesian psychoanalysis. In doing so! he creates an important psychological bridge between post-Cartesian psychoanalysis and existential philosophy in the phenomenology of emotional trauma. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Existential Analysis, Daseinanalysis, and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis. Heidegger's Investigative Method in Being and Time . Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis as Phenomenological Contextualism. Existential Anxiety, Finitude, and Trauma. Worlds Apart: Dissociation, Finitude, and Traumatic Temporality. Our Kinship-in-Finitude. Relationalizing Heidegger's Conception of Finitude. Expanding Heidegger's Conception of Relationality: Ethical Implications. Heidegger's Nazism and the Hypostatization of Being: A Distant Mirror. Conclusions: The Mutual Enrichment of Heidegger's Existential Philosophy and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis. ...

There is much to learn, much to like, much to ponder, and a few things to question in this slender, full-to-the-brim volume. To some degree, it feels as though its author, Robert Stolorow, has provided us a majestic coda to a long symphonyhis exploration of intersubjectivity, trauma, and related subjects over many yearsin which a few grand themes from previous movements return with crystal clarity and emotional conviction. The title itself has a kind of Mahlerian sweepWorld, Affectivity, Traumathat turns out to come directly from Heidegger, the Other with whom Stolorow is in deep conversation. In his first sentence, Stolorow announces his aim here: to show how Heidegger's existential philosophy enriches post-Cartesian psychoanalysis and how post-Cartesian psychoanalysis enriches Heidegger's existential philosophy (p. 1)... Stolorow builds, over several chapters, our understanding of Heidegger's concepts and their relation to psychoanalysis. He is a masterful guide, taking us through dense terrain and over slippery slopes. [Especially] compelling is [Stolorow's] discussion of affect, and his contention that psychopathology has everything to do with affect states that could not be integrated... Stolorow's broadening of Heidegger's concept of Being-toward-death into Being-toward-loss beautifully integrates the critical relational dimension and its power in childhood and throughout our lives[Stolorow] never fails to engage us.M. Gerard Fromm, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association "Stolorow's conversational style and willingness to spend considerable time explaining Heidegger's dense prose makes for a remarkably accessible text, especially in light of the highly interdisciplinary nature of his topic. Stolorow's work is commendable for at least two reasons. First, he manages to make clear numerous aspects of a notoriously confounding text by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. And second, he brings Heidegger's work to life by putting it in dialogue with contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. His application of Heideggerian phenomenology to his own theories of post-Cartesian psychoanalysis is certainly enriching, and he provides previously unavailable insights into the experience of traumatic loss."Anthony Vincent Fernandez, Human Studies "Robert Stolorow's innovative contribution to psychoanalysis exemplifies where post-Kohutian self psychology has got to in the form of 'contextualism.' World, Affectivity, Trauma is a brief and eloquent resume of this perspective. As with Trauma and Human Existence (2007), the theoretical argument in this case is inextricably linked to autobiographical reflection The aim is to rethink psychoanalysis, in the light of Heidegger's dismantling of the philosophic tradition, as a form of phenomenological inquiry and to 'awaken' the being there of attunement. [Stolorow's] therapeutic appropriation of Heidegger rests on the translation of loss into an authentic mode of being towards death, the idea of loss as a traumatic experience, or shattering episode, that reveals to us beings as a whole and the nothing [das Nichts] that underlies them. Accordingly, the therapeutic appropriation of contextualism aims to 'radicalize' psychoanalysis, but also to revise and augment Heidegger." Steven Groarke, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis "In World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis Stolorow presents a thoughtful and clarifying explication of Martin Heidegger, one of the seminal philosophers of the twentieth century, and a compelling meditation on the experience and healing of emotional trauma. [The book] explores, with care and precision, both Heidegger's relevance for psychoanalytic understanding of trauma, and the potential enrichment that psychoanalysis might offer to Heidegger's philosophical account of human existence. In Stolorow's philosophically adept hands this notoriously difficult, often opaque, and sometimes visionary text [Being and Time] comes alive and becomes more accessible. A short, compact book about a dense and complex topic, World, Affectivity, Trauma is full of insights about trauma, temporality, and Heidegger's life and work."Jeffrey B. Rubin, The Psychoanalytic Review "Robert Stolorow's World, Affectivity, Trauma is a significant exploration of the philosophical foundations of what Stolorow calls 'post-Cartesian' psychoanalysis. Radical in its rejection of the traditional subject/object dichotomy, suspicious of the conceit of an isolated, all-knowing mind standing apart from its 'object of study,' and alert to the myriad ways in which archaic mechanistic conceptions of mind/body have infiltrated traditional analytic metapsychology, Stolorow aims to ground psychoanalytic theory on the radical contextualism of Heidegger's existential phenomenology. Stolorow's approach to Heidegger is emotionally and clinically engaging and compelling. His open…