Psychoanalysis for Our Time : Exploring the Blindness of the Seeing I

Rubin, Jeffrey B.

ISBN 10: 0814774911 / ISBN 13: 9780814774915

Editore: NYU Press, 1998

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• Titolo: Psychoanalysis for Our Time : Exploring the Blindness of the Seeing I
• Editore: NYU Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0814774911
• ISBN 13: 9780814774915
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

Does psychoanalysis have a future?

Psychoanalysis is not a relic of a bygone era, argues Jeffrey B. Rubin in A Psychoanalysis for Our Time. Rather, it has profound relevance for our troubled time.

Steering a balanced course between Freud's virulent attackers and his loyalist defenders, Rubin discerns both blind spots and hidden strengths in psychoanalysis. He reveals its covert authoritarianism, Byzantine politics, censorship of dissident thinkers, residual sexism, and overly simplistic accounts of self. A Psychoanalysis for Our Time does not only cogently critique psychoanalysis, however; it also offers a visionary approach for its renewal, based on cultivating greater historical, theoretical, and methodological self-awareness within psychoanalysis.

Drawing on history, deconstructionism, feminism, anthropology, and Eastern meditative disciplines, Rubin portrays a psychoanalysis that is self-reflective and non-authoritarian, pluralistic and emancipatory. Encyclopedic in scope, integrative in spirit, A Psychoanalysis for Our Time is a brilliant and landmark work.

L'autore

Jeffrey B. Rubin practices psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy in New York City and Bedford Hills, New York. He has taught at various psychoanalytic institutes and universities including The Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, The Object Relations Institute, The C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, and Yeshiva University. He is the author of Psychotherapy and Buddhism: Toward an Integration.