Ryan Lamothe

Missing Us (eBook, ePUB)

Re-Visioning Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of Community

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Missing Us: Re-Visioning Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of Community, Ryan LaMothe questions the ways in which psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theorists and clinicians have historically relied principally on a two-person psychology to understand psychosocial development and practice. While this has many benefits, two-person perspectives often overlook a central need and struggle in human life, namely community. The concept of community and its cognate communion expand and deepen psychoanalytic theories of development, as well as reframe, in part, psychoanalytic concepts, processes, and aims. In Missing Us, LaMothe, relying on the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray, carefully defines the concept of community, being sure to differentiate it from the notions of sociality and intersubjectivity. Using this definition and the concept of person, LaMothe reframes potential space, transference, and motivation. Given this unique perspective, LaMothe addresses the strengths, limitations, and challenges of psychoanalysis as a therapeutic ritual.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780765708816
• Artikelnr.: 38165217

Autorenporträt

By Ryan LaMothe Ph.D

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Preface Chapter One
Psychoanalysis and Community Chapter Two
Persons in Community Chapter Three
Being Alive Together: Potential Space, Transitional Objects, and Persons
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Community Chapter Four
Communion of Everyday Life: Motivation, the Unconscious, and the Struggle of and for Community Chapter Five
Transference Love in Light of Communion and Community Chapter Six
Psychoanalysis and Community: Strengths, Limitations, and Challenges Index About the Author