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This is an important work, both for the psychology of personality and for psychoanalytic theory. The authors establish a broad, 'decentered' perspective . . . whose purpose is to integrate various theories of personality by acknowledging their inevitable subjectivity, and then using that subjectivity to demarcate the limits of each theory. They provide fascinating psychobiographical case studies of Freud, Jung, Reich, and Rank, in which they demonstrate the relation between the internal world of each author and the major preoccupations and motivational principles of each theory. They convincingly argue that the broad metapsychological abstractions in each theory are defensive or reparative reifications of the internal psychodynamics of each theorist. This book raises important issues and questions for readers at all levels.--Stephen A. Mitchell, Ph.D. "Library Journal "
| Preface | |
| Personality Theory and Subjectivity | p. 1 |
| The Observer is the Observed | p. 5 |
| Subjectivity and Validity | |
| The Psychology and Sociology of Knowledge | |
| Decentering in the Genesis of Knowledge | |
| Attempted Circumventions of Subjectivity | p. 17 |
| Behaviorism | |
| Methodological Objectivism | |
| Phenomenology | |
| The Case Study Method | p. 27 |
| Structures of the Subjective World | |
| Sigmund Freud | p. 35 |
| Ambivalence in Freud's Life | p. 38 |
| Earliest Experiences | |
| Adult Relationships | p. 45 |
| The Defensive-Restitutive Function of Freud's Theories | p. 53 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 59 |
| Carl Jung | p. 61 |
| The Subjective World in Jung's Theory | p. 66 |
| The Collective Unconscious and Archetypes | |
| Self-Dissolution | |
| The Disunited Man | |
| Individuation | |
| The Psychological Origins of Jung's Theory | p. 83 |
| The Genesis of the Secret | |
| Critical Formative Experiences | |
| The Subjectivity of Jung's Theories | |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 100 |
| Wilhelm Reich | p. 101 |
| Thematic Structure of Reich's Works | p. 104 |
| Character Analysis and Orgastic Potency | |
| Political Thought | |
| Biological Research and the Treatment of Cancer | |
| Unidentified Flying Objects | |
| A Pivotal Childhood Trauma | p. 111 |
| Further Aspects of Reich's Life and Thought | p. 117 |
| Images of History, Civilization, and Nature | |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 124 |
| Otto Rank | p. 125 |
| Rank's Work | p. 128 |
| The Birth Trauma | |
| The Hero | |
| The Double | |
| The Will | |
| Narcissistic Love | |
| Sexual Dread and Self-Dissolution | |
| The Artist | |
| Rank's Life | p. 145 |
| Evidence of Narcissistic Disturbance | |
| Childhood Traumata | |
| Reparative Trends | |
| The Subjectivity of Rank's Theories | |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 163 |
| From the Subjectivity of Theory to a Theory of Intersubjectivity | p. 165 |
| Critiques of Psychoanalytic Metapsychology | p. 168 |
| Metapsychology and the Subjective World | p. 173 |
| Psychoanalytic Phenomenology and the Theory of Intersubjectivity | p. 176 |
| The Unconscious | |
| Analysis of Transference | |
| Metapsychology, Metaphysics, and Intersubjectivity | p. 185 |
| The Self | |
| The Mind and the Body | |
| The Real | |
| The Subjectivity of Intersubjectivity Theory | |
| References | p. 191 |
| Index | p. 201 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780765702005
ISBN-10: 0765702002
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 224
Published: 1st January 2001
Publisher: JASON ARONSON INC
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 22.91 x 15.19
x 1.3
Weight (kg): 0.34
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