see also
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWHixk9DDstjfHLuWJAEh9A
Psychoanalytic Thinking: A
Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice (Psychological Issues),
by Donald L. Carveth, Routledge,
April 9, 2018
A video of Don Carveth discussing the book and its subject
matter can be accessed using the following web URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW7tGq0uEtU
Since the
classical Freudian and ego psychology paradigms lost their position of
dominance in the late 1950s, psychoanalysis became a multi-paradigm science
with those working in the different frameworks increasingly engaging only with
those in the same or related intellectual "silos." Beginning with
Freud’s theory of human nature and civilization, Psychoanalytic
Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice proceeds
to review and critically evaluate a series of major post-Freudian contributions
to psychoanalytic thought.
In response to
the defects, blind spots and biases in Freud’s work, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion,
Jacques Lacan, Erich Fromm, Donald Winnicott, Heinz Kohut, Heinrich Racker,
Ernest Becker amongst others offered useful correctives and innovations that
are, nevertheless, themselves in need of remediation for their own forms of
one-sidedness. Through Carveth’s comparative exploration, readers will acquire
a sense of what is enduringly valuable in these diverse psychoanalytic
contributions, as well as exposure to the dialectically deconstructive method
of critique that Carveth sees as central to psychoanalytic thinking at its
best. Carveth violates the taboo against speaking of the Imaginary, Symbolic
and the Real unless one is a Lacanian, or the paranoid-schizoid and depressive
positions unless one is a Kleinian, or id, ego, superego, ego-ideal and conscience
unless one is a Freudian ego psychologist, and so on.
Out of dialogue and mutual critique,
psychoanalysis can over time separate the wheat from the chaff, collect the
wheat, and approach an ever-evolving synthesis. Psychoanalytic
Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice will
be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists and,
more broadly, to readers in philosophy, social science and critical social
theory. (amazon) (kindle 2018-7-13)
