Returning to the Infinite—Kohut’s Empathy, Levinas’s Other, and the Ethical Imperative: Discussion of Articles by Doris Brothers and Joseph Lichtenberg

Levinas and psychoanalysis: An antihermeneutic approach.

“…Others, like myself, believe that Levinas can help psychoanalysts think ethically in the clinic (Marcus, 2010; Orange, 2011). In the psychoanalytic literature, Levinas is often read alongside innovative psychoanalysts: Bion (Emery, 2000), Ferenczi (Orange, 2011), Kohut (Orange, 2011; Rizzolo, 2017; Sucharov, 2014), Lacan (Barnard, 2002; Critchley, 1998; Ruti, 2015); Winnicott (Alford, 2000, 2002, 2007; Orange, 2011). I believe that the work of Lacan and his student Laplanche can help to rethink Levinasian ethics in relation to clinical work through the critique of hermeneutics as the form of clinical work itself.…”