Conversation with a Truth Seeker

2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaap Bos
Keyword(s):  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

This paper is an invited response to Peter Rudnytsky's ‘Guardians of truth’ article. Taking issue with what are presented as fundamental theoretical and methodological caveats, this article discusses the question of when and how differing discourses on the history of psychoanalysis may or may not be compatible. In particular the author questions the validity of a concept of truth as defined from within a field of knowledge, to arrive at definitions of discourse and dialogue that can be useful to acquire new forms of knowledge.

Tansley's Psychoanalytic Network: An episode out of the Early History of Psychoanalysis in England

2000 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Cameron ◽  
John Forrester
Keyword(s):  
Discussion Group ◽  
Early History ◽  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
Training Requirements ◽  
Life Paths ◽  
History Of ◽  
Unpublished Manuscripts

The paper traces the psychoanalytic networks of the English botanist, A.G. Tansley, a patient of Freud's (1922-1924), whose detour from ecology to psychoanalysis staked out a path which became emblematic for his generation. Tansley acted as the hinge between two networks of men dedicated to the study of psychoanalysis: a Cambridge psychoanalytic discussion group consisting of Tansley, John Rickman, Lionel Penrose, Frank Ramsey, Harold Jeffreys and James Strachey; and a network of field scientists which included Harry Godwin, E. Pickworth Farrow and C.C. Fagg. Drawing on unpublished letters written by Freud and on unpublished manuscripts, the authors detail the varied life paths of these psychoanalytic allies, focusing primarily on the 1920s when psychoanalysis in England was open to committed scientific enthusiasts, before the development of training requirements narrowed down what counted as a psychoanalytic community.

Psychoanalysis Confronts Cognitive Disability

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-146
Author(s):  
Dagmar Herzog
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Disability ◽  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
History Of

This essay outlines key moments in the long history of psychoanalysis’ deeply problematic engagement with the phenomenon of cognitive disability – as it highlights as well the work of exceptional counter-examples, including Fernand Deligny, Maud Mannoni, and Angelo Villa.

The limits of literature as liberation: Colonialism, governmentality, and the humanist subject

2020 ◽  
pp. 135050762097897
Author(s):  
M Greedharry
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge ◽  
Colonial Governmentality

Scholars in both the humanities and management remain attached to the idea that literature will set us free. Whether this is because literary text seems unconstrained by our epistemes or reading literature offers a practice through which we will be able to shape ourselves into the people we want to be, many of us understand literature as something that offers us a chance to emancipate ourselves from the regime of knowledge we have now. Nevertheless, as the history of literature as colonial governmentality suggests, literature and literary study have been crucial forms of knowledge-power for creating and maintaining organizational structures as well as producing the willing subjects that make those structures work. This being so, how is it that are we still interested in using literature to make “better” people, whether the people in question are ”better” managers or their subordinates, rather than reorganizing literary study in the contemporary university?

Dissent in the Early History of Psychoanalysis†

Psychiatry ◽  
1942 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-359
Author(s):  
Edith Vowinckel Weigert
Keyword(s):  
Early History ◽  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
History Of

Politica della psicoanalisi, mistica del ruolo e clinica della colleganza

2009 ◽  
pp. 313-342
Author(s):  
Giorgio Meneguz
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Clinical Aspects ◽  
Training Process ◽  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
Psychoanalytic Training ◽  
History Of ◽  
Conspiracy Of Silence ◽  
Nodal Problem ◽  
The Relationship

- This article discusses some aspects of the nodal problem of the intertwining of psychoanalytic training and clinical aspects of the relationship among colleagues, namely: What lessons can we learn from the history of psychoanalysis about the distortions of the relationships within training process and its fallout on how an analyst will behave with his/her colleagues? "Clinical aspects of the relationship among colleagues" refer to some form of impropriety or markedly pathological behaviors that appear both among groups (e.g., phenomena such as sectarianism and conflict), and within the affiliation group (e.g., jealousy and Oedipal rivalry, dominance and submission, conspiracy of silence and the related lack of loyalty, behaviors above or outside the rules, suspiciousness, devaluation of personal relationships and friendships or, worse, through publications, and so on).KEY WORDS: psychoanalytic training, psychoanalytic institutions, transmission/filiations, clinical aspects of the relationship among colleagues, history of psychoanalysis

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