By Betty Cannon
ISBN-10: 0700604456
ISBN-13: 9780700604456
Betty Cannon is the 1st to discover the consequences of Sartrean philosophy for the Freudian psychoanalytic culture. Drawing upon Sartre's paintings in addition to her personal reviews as a training therapist, she indicates that Sartre used to be a "fellow tourist" who favored Freud's psychoanalytic achievements yet rebelled opposed to the determinism of his metatheory. The brain, Sartre argued, can't be decreased to a suite of drives and buildings, neither is it enslaved to its earlier as Freud's paintings steered. Sartre endorsed an existentialist psychoanalysis according to human freedom and the self's skill to reshape its personal which means and cost. throughout the Sartrean process Cannon bargains a answer to the drawback in psychoanalytic metatheory created by means of the present emphasis on relational wishes. through evaluating Sartre with Freud and influential post-Freudians like Melanie Klein, Otto Kernber, Margaret Mahler, D.W. Winnicott, Heinz Kohut, Harry Stack Sullivan, and Jacques Lacan, she demonstrates why the Sartrean version transcends the restrictions of conventional Freudian metatheory. within the method, she provides a brand new size to our figuring out of Sartre and his position in twentieth-century philosophy.
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In narcissism, the patient has hypercathected (a certain amount of ego cathexis is considered normal by Freud) his own ego to the exclusion of external ob jects (Freud, 1914a). As for hysteria, Freud believes that it is a clear case of the "conversion" of physical energy into "innervation" energy, thus produc ing such symptoms as hysterical blindness (Freud, 1896; 1905b). Even the state of being in love, unless returned by the love object, is seen as impover ishing the subject in terms of draining libidinal energy from the ego to the object (Freud, 1914a).
Lacan does not solve the problem of the new relational needs and the desire to develop a coherent sense of self discovered by the post-Freudian theorists (whose work he mostly dismisses); indeed, he rarely even addresses those difficulties. Instead, he opts for a metapsychology based on structural linguistics which has some points of convergence with Sartre (by whom Lacan may have been influ enced to some extent), but which is directly opposed to the ideas concerning intentionality and meaning production which are the cornerstones of Sartrean metatheory.
Drive theory is also made the cornerstone of the structural hypothesis (1923)—sometimes referred to as the second topographical hypothesis— which has been a main focus of interest among most modern psychoanalytic theorists. Yet whereas many of these theorists either ignore or merely pay lip service to Freudian drive theory, Freud himself postulates the formation of psychic structures by and for the purpose of managing the drives. The id, which is present at birth, is the dwelling place of the drives.
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