Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis

Stolorow, Robert D.; Circle, Heidegger

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“…Bollas’s critique of the dominance of the “paternal” order is similar to a contemporary American psychoanalyst and philosopher Robert Stolorow’s critique of the Cartesian elements within psychoanalysis (Stolorow, 2011); both point to the benefits of the “maternal,” non-Cartesian, holistic perspective that abolishes the artificial Cartesian subject-object/world, mind-body split still dominant in psychoanalytic thinking. Stolorow has offered a systematic critique of the problematic nature of the Cartesian thinking that has resulted in isolation of the subject from his or her relational and cultural context (“myth of the isolated mind”) pervasive in psychoanalytic thinking (Stolorow, 2011). Tu Wei Ming, a prominent scholar of Chinese thought, comments that the non-Cartesian Chinese worldview offers possibilities that the Cartesian mind cannot imagine (Tu, 1985).…”

Section: What Can the Chinese Worldview Offer Psychoanalysis?mentioning

confidence: 94%

Review of Psychoanalysis in China.

Yi¹

2017

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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The fruitful ambiguity of Qi allows philosophers to explore realms of being which are inconceivable to people constricted by a Cartesian dichotomy.-Tu Wei-Ming, Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation. (p. 37)Post-Mao China, with its 1.4 billion people and the world's second largest economy, is transforming itself at a dizzying speed. Unprecedented changes in political, economic, and social arenas, such as market privatization, the migration of millions of rural workers to cities, and the rise of the super wealthy and a large, new middle class, to name just a few, are reshaping the Chinese psyche as well. Individuals' identities once tied to family, kinship network, and the collective community, are giving way to individual identity and autonomy (Kleinman et al., 2011). In this new world, it is up to individuals to procure jobs and to create opportunities, rather than wait for a party or state assignment. Expression of individual desires, ranging from spiritual, material, educational, sexual, to affective, all of which have been previously restrained, are encouraged and even celebrated through mass media and the Internet. One upshot of this postsocialist cultivation of subjectivity is "Psycho-boom." Psychology and psychotherapy books, seminars, and even a TV show depicting therapy are popular. Obtaining certificates in psychotherapy and counseling is gaining wide appeal. A part of this Psycho-boom is a strong interest in psychoanalysis (perhaps because psychoanalysis's emphasis on the sanctity of individual subjectivity).This Chinese interest comes at a difficult time for psychoanalysis in the West, where it is facing a deep decline. It has responded to the Chinese interest with enthusiasm, setting up various training programs for Chinese mental health professionals, and providing opportunities for remote psychoanalysis and supervision via Skype with Western analysts. The importance of the new Chinese frontier to the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) was demonstrated when it held its conference celebrating its 100th year in Beijing in 2010. Apropos, several books on psychoanalysis in China and Far East have appeared in print (

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Section: What Can the Chinese Worldview Offer Psychoanalysis?mentioning

confidence: 94%

Review of Psychoanalysis in China.

Yi¹

2017

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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“…Stolorow and Atwood view the Freudian conception of the mind as committed to a Cartesian mind–body dualism, which conceives of the mind and the world as two independent terms and would thereby imply a “decontextualization” of mind and world ( Stolorow, 2011 , 13). They regard such a conception as highly problematic: even though Freud’s view of the mind includes the unconscious, it still views the subject as “passive receptor of discrete atomic impressions from the outer world.” Stolorow and Atwood criticize the interpretation of consciousness as “a quasi-spatial container.” Such a conception of mind and world necessarily involves “a projection into experience of the qualities of material objects of experience,” and reflects “a failure to confront the attributes of subjectivity in their own distinctive terms” ( Stolorow and Atwood, 2014 , 12).…”

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“…Reflecting on their theoretical and clinical development throughout the years, Stolorow and Atwood find that it mirrors the philosophical trajectory from classical phenomenology to what they call contextualism: they write that a “dedication to phenomenological inquiry” led them to recognize the context-embeddedness of all emotional experience. They equate their journey with the movement from Husserl’s Cartesian phenomenology to what they call “Heidegger’s phenomenological contextualism” ( Stolorow, 2011 , 19). Husserl is supposed to represent the isolated mind-thinking that they want to depart from, and Heidegger stands for the radical context-embeddedness of all experience that is assumed to underlie their claims.…”

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The unconscious and the transcendental: Husserlian phenomenology in intersubjective systems theory

Uljée

2023

Front. Psychol.

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The relational turn in psychoanalysis can be identified by the replacement of Freudian drives for intersubjectivity as main regulative principle. “Intersubjective systems theory” is the name of one strand within the relational turn that explicitly locates its philosophical foundations in a number of phenomenological insights. In this paper, I investigate some of the essential phenomenological assumptions underlying intersubjective systems theory. I identify 2 main problems: 1. intersubjective systems theory relies on the premise that meaning is intersubjectively constituted, yet fails to offer an account of this constitution; 2. intersubjective systems theory is based on an ambiguous conception of the unconscious. The aim of this paper is to show how Husserlian phenomenology offers a valuable theoretical foundation for intersubjective systems theory in the sense that it presents a convincing account of the intersubjective constitution of meaning that in its very constitution allows for a dynamic and situational relation between consciousness and unconsciousness.

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“…Freud, through psychoanalysis, sought to create a discipline within medicine, based in biological and instinctual drives. It has been argued that Freud's development of the concept of the unconscious can be viewed as an extension of Cartesianism; it is a reified vast internal territory separated from the external world and from inner awareness that contains memories and experience (Stolorow, 2011).…”

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“…What might result is a privation of emotional experience, in that certain emotional experiences and ways of being are not ontologically available. Stolorow (2011Stolorow ( , 2015 has added that in developmental traumas, affect or emotional states take on enduring and crushing meanings from recurring experiences of malattunement, resulting in long-term consequences, especially if the trauma is continuous over a long period of time.…”

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Philosophical and existential perspectives on trauma.

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APA Handbook of Trauma Psychology: Foundations in Knowledge (Vol. 1).

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Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis

Cited by 6 publications

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Review of Psychoanalysis in China.

Review of Psychoanalysis in China.

The unconscious and the transcendental: Husserlian phenomenology in intersubjective systems theory

Philosophical and existential perspectives on trauma.

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