The Last Resistance, livre ebook

A fundamentally new examination of the controversies raging around psychoanalysis.

A fundamentally new examination of the controversies raging around psychoanalysis.

Radical and uncompromising, The Last Resistance is a penetrating rediscovery of the essential nature of psychoanalysis. Looking at the Freud wars in the historical context of the rise of modern science and the decline of traditional religion, it shows how outmoded notions of science are used as a resistance to the rational investigation of the self. Unashamedly partisan, this new examination of the controversies raging around psychoanalysis will prove compelling for readers of every faction in the Freudian conflicts.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1. INTRODUCTION: DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY AND THE PROBLEM OF SCIENCE
Science and the Corrosion of Tradition
Science and the Self
The Metaphors of Science
Science and Consensus
The Distortion of Defense
2. PLACING PSYCHOANALYSIS AS A SCIENCE
The Cartesian Separation of Mind from Science
Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics
Freud's Own Remarks on the Classification of Psychoanalysis
3. NIETZSCHE AND THE CRITIQUE OF INTENTION
The Challenge to Dualism from Pragmatism
Nietzsche's Critique of Intention
Applications to Psychopathology
4. ISSUES FROM STUDIES ON HYSTERIA
Individuation and Neurosis
Breuer's Case of Anna O.
The Case of Elisabeth von R.
Catharsis and Psychoanalysis
5. DEFENSE AND THE PROBLEM OF IDENTITY
Defense and the Conflict between Hunger and Overabundance
Exception and Rule in Freudian Metapsychology
General Summary and Conclusion
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX