2008
DOI: 10.1521/jaap.2008.36.2.217
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Reconciliation: The Continuing Role of Theory

Abstract: Abstract:The author regards this lecture-event as a symbol of the rapprochements currently in process, brought about by the need to close ranks due to a period of theoretical fragmentation and decline. Just as the original breakthrough of psychoanalysis a century ago was its theory of understanding, the fate of that theory is paramount in the process of consolidation and reconciliation during the present recovery phase. Splits are caused by ideas and people. Theory has grown by steady accretion, and by a paral… Show more

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“…Given his emphasis on the tangible, one might indeed wonder how much he also agrees with Rangell’s emphasis on an integrative theory (2008). After all, Rangell (2004) is unequivocal about there being but one theory:In the ongoing debate over “one theory or many,” I favor one total, composite psychoanalytic theory, unified and cumulative: total because it contains all nonexpendable elements, composite because it is a blend of the old and all valid new concepts and discoveries, and psychoanalytic as fulfilling the criteria for what is psychoanalytic.…”
Section: Is There One Psychoanalytic Theory? What Must It Include?mentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Given his emphasis on the tangible, one might indeed wonder how much he also agrees with Rangell’s emphasis on an integrative theory (2008). After all, Rangell (2004) is unequivocal about there being but one theory:In the ongoing debate over “one theory or many,” I favor one total, composite psychoanalytic theory, unified and cumulative: total because it contains all nonexpendable elements, composite because it is a blend of the old and all valid new concepts and discoveries, and psychoanalytic as fulfilling the criteria for what is psychoanalytic.…”
Section: Is There One Psychoanalytic Theory? What Must It Include?mentioning
confidence: 95%
“…After I read two very interesting papers, one by Leo Rangell (2008) and the other by Arnold Cooper (2008), I thought that the pioneering attempt to bring about "a comparative psychoanalysis" made by Greenberg and Mitchell in 1983, notwithstanding the epistemological brilliance and sophistication of their proposal, would not bring about the change they desired in our way of looking at psychoanalysis as a discipline, so long as the history of psychoanalysis is not an essential part of the training of our candidates. Only a good knowledge of the history of psychoanalysis can allow us to strip its various dialects of some of their own distortions in our efforts to unite the various ways in which they illuminate a whole series of aspects of our experience into a unitary body of knowledge.…”
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confidence: 99%