Psychoanalysis, Apathy, and the Postmodern Patient

Author(s) : Laurence Kahn

Psychoanalysis, Apathy, and the Postmodern Patient

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : June 2018
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 120
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 93495
  • ISBN 13 : 9781138068117
  • ISBN 10 : 9781138068

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The postmodern turn underlies a new development in psychoanalysis, which has theoretical and practical implications. Psychoanalysis, Apathy, and the Postmodern Patient involves a detailed reading of the main psychoanalytic texts that mark out this extended development, along with a critical examination of the changes in the major Freudian concepts. At stake are the tenets of infantile sexuality, `psychic reality,' unconscious determinism, the fulfilment of unconscious desire and free association. In this book, Laurence Kahn sets out a critique of postmodern psychoanalysis, via a theoretical and clinical discussion that tackles the place of metapsychology and the question of the scientific status of psychoanalysis. Starting from Freud's own work, she considers such key topics as the analyst's objectivity, the relevance of self-disclosure, the complex influence of French postmodern theorists and the role of empathy in psychoanalytic technique. In so doing, she offers a perspective on psychoanalytic thought and practice that exposes the insidious taming of the Freudian model in favour of a "humanistic" and "dialogic" approach that obliterates the radical otherness of the unconscious. Coming from a powerful voice in the contemporary French psychoanalytic tradition, Psychoanalysis, Apathy, and the Postmodern Patient is a bold celebration of psychoanalysis that will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as philosophers and historians of thought.

About the Author(s)

Laurence Kahn is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the French Psychoanalytic Association (APF) and is a former President of the APF (2008-2010). In 2014, she received the Maurice Bouvet Award and in 2021, she received the IPA award for Extraordinarily Meritorious Service to Psychoanalysis.

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