Structures of
Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology and Contextualism, is a revised and
expanded second edition of a work first published in 1984, which
was the first systematic presentation of the intersubjective viewpoint – what George Atwood and Robert Stolorow called
psychoanalytic phenomenology – in psychoanalysis. This edition contains new
chapters tracing the further development of their thinking over the ensuing
decades and explores the personal origins of their most essential ideas.
In this new
edition, Atwood and Stolorow cover the philosophical and theoretical
assumptions of psychoanalysis and present a broad approach that they have
designated phenomenological contextualism. This approach addresses personal
subjective worlds in all their richness and idiosyncrasy and focuses on their
relational contexts of origin and therapeutic transformation.
Structures
of Subjectivity covers the principles guiding the practice of psychoanalytic
therapy from the authors' viewpoints and includes numerous detailed clinical
case studies. The book will be essential reading for psychoanalysts,
practitioners of psychotherapy, psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, and
social workers. It will also be of interest to scholars and students with an
interest in psychoanalytic theory and practice, and its philosophical premises.
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they came to the
intersubjectivity via personal trauma ... then philosophical hermeneutics of
Gadamer
所以現象學太用力了
不夠溫潤 互為主體的本質是詮釋學 詮釋學才是溫潤
I
remembered how important it had been to me to believe that the analyst I saw
after Dede’s death was also a person who had known devastating loss, and how I
implored her not to say anything that could disabuse me of my belief. (p. 14)
In
my experience, this conceptualization of developmental trauma as a relational
process involving malattunement to painful affect has proven to be of enormous
clinical value in the treatment of traumatized patients. Yet, as I began to
recognize at that conference dinner, this formulation fails to distinguish
between an attunement that cannot be supplied by others and an attunement that
cannot be felt by the traumatized person, because of the profound sense of
singularity that seemed to me to be built into the experience of trauma itself.
A beginning comprehension of this isolating estrangement came from an
unexpected source: the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer, whose
work I had begun to read. (p.15)
Perhaps not surprisingly, we saw more
clearly the power of trauma in each
of our lives, including experiences of shattering loss, of tyrannical
invalidation, and personal fragmentation. We
also began to recognize all the ways that intersubjectivity theory constituted
a kind of answer to the events and circumstances that had been most difficult.
The theory that is our Holy Grail … seeks victory over demonic forces that tear
us away from ourselves and each other, that confront us with crushing
definitions of who we are and should be, and that threaten the survival of our
very subjectivity as experiencing persons. (Atwood and Stolorow, 2014, p. 111)
(pp. 13-14)
Stolorow, Robert D., Atwood, George
E. The Power of Phenomenology: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives.
Taylor and Francis. 2018, Kindle edition.
