The current psychoanalytic dialogue: its counterpart in Renaissance philosophy.

It is my premise that psychoanalysis is involved in a phase of metapsychological and technical debate typical during the course of intellectual history. In general, the more traditional school textually conceptualizes psychoanalysis as a natural, observational science involving subject-object duality, determinism, and causality, and tends to separate theory and practice, interspersing a force-energy metapsychology. The recent critics of traditional theory view psychoanalysis as closer to cultural science and art.