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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Foreword; Introduction: On Critique; I Civilization

and Its Discontents: A Kleinian Re-View; IIExpanding Structural Theory: Id, Ego, Superego,Ego-Ideal and Conscience; III Is There a Futurein Disillusion? ; IV Self Psychology and theIntersubjective Perspective; V Lacanian Theory:Appreciation and Critique ; VI The MelancholicExistentialism of Ernest Becker; VII Concordantand Complementary Countertransference: AClarification ; VIII Clarifying and DeconstructingWinnicott ; IX Neo-Kleinian Theory: A DialecticalRe-Vision ; X Beyond Nature and Culture: ErichFromm’s Existentialism; Postscript: DialecticalThinking

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Psychoanalytic Thinking

A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theoryand Practice

Donald L. Carveth, York University, Toronto, Canada

Series: Psychological Issues

Since the classical Freudian and ego psychology paradigms

lost their position of dominance in the late 1950s, psychoanalysis became a multi-paradigm science with

those working in the different frameworks increasingly

engaging only with those in the same or related intellectual "silos." Beginning with Freud’s theory of human nature and

civilization, Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of

Contemporary Theory and Practice proceeds to review and

critically evaluate a series of major post-Freudian

contributions to psychoanalytic thought.

"Psychoanalytic Thinking is a bold and fascinating

exploration of diverse trends in contemporary

psychoanalysis; one firmly grounded in the history of the

discipline. Carveth’s fearless critique of authoritarian

trends in psychoanalysis, past and present, is balanced

by refreshing reminders of the emancipatory power of

truth, the dangers of postmodern relativism, and the

importance of differentiating between the superego and

conscience proper. And much, much else besides." —

Daniel Burston, Ph.D., Department of Psychology,

Duquesne University.

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