Inhaltsangabe
According to Barratt, psychoanalytic theory and practice - which discloses "the interminable falsity of the human subject's belief in the mastery of its own mental life" - is in part responsible for the coming of the postmodern era. In this book, Barratt examines the role of psychoanalysis in what he sees as the crisis of modernism, shows why the modernist position - what he calls the "modern episteme" - is failing, and proposes that psychoanalysis should redefine itself as a postmodern method. In Barratt's account of psychoanalysis, which focuses on the significance of the free-associative process, Freud's discovery of the repressed unconscious leads to a claim that is basic to postmodern ideas: "that all thinking and speaking, the production and reproduction of psychic reality, is inherantly dynamic, polysemous and contradictorious". He argues that subsequent attempts to "normalize and systemize" psychanalysis are reactionary and antipsychoanalytic efforts to salvage the modern epistome that psychoanalysis itself calls into question.
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Críticas
"A profound and erudite work." -- American Journal of Psychotherapy
Reseña del editor
"Barratt's contribution lies in his ability to demonstrate the intersection of psychoanalytic method with semiotics and cultural critique. The strength of his analysis lies in the ethical mandate of his political and psychoanalytical perspective: authentic psychoanalysis demands and implies a critique of Western patriarchy and all its anguished legacy."--Vera J. Camden, Kent State Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis.
"A profound and erudite work."--American Journal of Psychotherapy.
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