Levenson / Slomowitz Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and the Enigma of Consciousness

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-53240-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 342 Seiten

Reihe: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

Edgar A. Levenson is a key figure in the development of interpersonal psychoanalysis whose ideas remain influential. Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and the Enigma of Consciousness builds on his previously published work in his key areas of expertise such as interpersonal psychoanalysis, transference and countertransference, and the philosophy of psychoanalysis, and sets his ideas into contemporary context. Combining a selection of Levenson’s own writings with extensive discussion and analysis of his work by Stern and Slomowitz, it provides an invaluable guide to how his most recent, mature ideas may be understood and applied by contemporary psychoanalysts in their own practice.

This book explores how the rational algorithm of psychoanalytic engagement and the mysterious flows of consciousness interact; this has traditionally been thought of as dialectical, an unresolvable duality in psychoanalytic practice. Analysts move back and forth between the two perspectives, rather like a gestalt leap, finding themselves listening either to the "interpersonal" or to the "intrapsychic" in what feels like a self-state leap. But the interpersonal is not in dialectical opposition to the intrapsychic; rather a manifestation of it, a subset. The chapters pick up from the themes explored in The Purloined Self, shifting the emphasis from the interpersonal field to the exploration of the enigma of the flow of consciousness that underlies the therapeutic process. This is not the Freudian Unconscious nor the consciousness of awareness, but the mysterious Jamesian matrix of being. Any effort at influence provokes resistance and refusal by the patient. Permitted a "working space", the patient ultimately cures herself. How that happens is a mystery wrapped up in the greater mystery of unconscious process, which in turn is wrapped into the greatest philosophical and neurological enigma of all—the nature of consciousness.

Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and the Enigma of Consciousness will be highly engaging and readable; Levenson’s witty essayist style and original perspective will make it greatly appealing and accessible to undergraduate and postgraduate students of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as well as practitioners in these fields.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levenson, Edgar A.

Slomowitz, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to the Enigma of Consciousness

Section 1 The Unfolding of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, From Interpersonal Psychiatry to Interpersonal Psychoanalysis

1 1998 An interpersonal therapist

2 1991 Back to the future: the new psychoanalytic revisionism

3 1992 H.S. Sullivan; from interpersonal psychiatry to interpersonal psychoanalysis

4 1993 Shoot the messenger: interpersonal aspects of the analyst's interpretations

5 1995 A Monopedal version of interpersonal psychoanalysis

6 2002 The last shall be first: some observations on the evolution of Interpersonal psychoanalysis

7 2006 Fifty years of evolving Interpersonal Psychoanalysis

Section 2 Transference, Countertransference and Psychoanalytic process

8 1991 Standoffs, impasses and stalemates

9 1992 Mistakes, errors and oversights

10 1994 Beyond counter-transference: aspects of the analyst's desire

11 1996 Aspects of self-revelation and self-disclosure

12 2000 Psychoanalytic love and therapeutic despair

13 2003 On seeing what is said: visual aids to the psychoanalytic process

14 2009 The enigma of the transference

15 2012 Psychoanalysis and the rite of refusal

Section 3 The Philosophy of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice

16 1994 The uses of disorder: Chaos theory and psychoanalysis

17 1996 The politics of interpretation

18 1998 Awareness, insight and learning

19 2001 The enigma of the unconscious

20 2001 Freud’s Dilemma: on writing Greek and thinking Jewish

21 2001 Creativity, genius and divine madness

22 2007 Oh what a blow that phantom gave me in Longing: Psychoanaltic Musings on Desire

23 2011 Deeper, wider: some comments on the Gill:Bromberg correspondence

24 2011 Lost in Translation

25 2013 Psychoanalysis, the Uncanny and the Banalization of Evil

Epilogue 2005 Interview with Edgar Levenson by Irwin Hirsch and Victor Iannuzzi

Über Autor(innen)

Edgar A. Levenson is Fellow Emeritus, Training, Supervisory Analyst and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute. He is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the NYU Graduate Studies Division, Honorary Fellow at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Life Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, and Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Winner of the 2006 Mary S. Sigourney Award, he is author of over one hundred and ten publications, including Fallacy of Understanding (1972), The Ambiguity of Change (1983) and The Purloined Self (2016).

Alan Slomowitz, Ph.D., is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology. He is a Supervisor of Psychotherapy at the White Institute, on the Editorial Board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and the Internet Editor of the Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Action blog. Dr. Slomowitz edited the new release of The Purloined Self (2016) with Dr. Levenson. Dr. Slomowitz is in private practice in New York City.