Binding: Paperback
Description: Psychoanalytic thought has already transformed our basic assumptions about the psychic life of individuals and cultures. Those assumptions often take on the valence of common sense. However this can mean that their original and important meanings often become obscured. Disruptive ideas become domesticated. At War with the Obvious aims to return those ideas to their original disruptive status. Donald Moss explores a wide range of issues the loosening of constraints on deep systematized forms of hatred clinical and technical matters the puzzling status of revenge and forgiveness a consideration of the dynamics of climate change denial and an innovative look at the problem of voice in the clinical situation. Because it is rooted in a profound reconsideration of the origins of psychic life psychoanalysis remains vital in spite of the perennial efforts to keep it effaced and quieted. Moss covers a range of central psychoanalytic concepts to argue that only by examining and challenging our everyday assumptions about issues like sexuality punishment creativity analytic neutrality and trauma can psychoanalysis offer a radical alternative to other forms of therapy. At War with the Obvious will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists cultural theorists and anyone for whom incisive psychoanalytic thought matters.
Title: At War With The Obvious Disruptive Thinking In Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Moss Donald Phd
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138841567
Pages: 174 Pages, 2 Halftones, Black And White; 2 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 8/22/2017
Category: Psychotherapy