The cunning of clinical reason in psychoanalysis: How a case makes use of reflective agents to conceptualize itself.
Niccolò Fiorentino Polipo,
Jochem Willemsen,
Cristiano Vidali
Abstract:The process of case conceptualization in psychoanalysis has at times been described by those involved as the progressive emergence of a “logic” that can be grasped only retrospectively. However, there has been little effort to frame this phenomenon in a theoretically grounded way. In this article, we suggest that Hegel’s doctrine of the cunning of reason may be used to better understand the process of psychoanalytic case conceptualization. According to Hegel, historical agents unwittingly realize the logic of … Show more
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