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On Bion's Concept of Truth in an Extra-Moral Sense.
Am J Psychoanal
December 2023
MD, PhD, 1 Piazza A. Botta, 27100, Pavia, Italy.
The paper explores the concept of truth in Bion's theory and in the post-Bionian context of the analytic field. Truth is addressed on three levels: epistemological, metapsychological, and clinical. Bion criticizes positivism in psychoanalysis, and the same vertex when it appears in psychoanalysis itself, stating that the search for truth at all costs is similar to the arrogance and stupidity of the psychotic part of the personality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[The scientific character of psychoanalysis: Freud in the current discussion].
Vertex
July 2023
Licenciado en Psicología (UBA), Doctor en Filosofía (UBA), Investigador (CONICET 1992-2018).
The discussion on the scientific character of psychoanalysis is continuous and multifaceted. Nowadays the extent and variety of the implied aspects in it is even increased. In this context this article presents for its analysis and assessment a reconsideration of Freud’s line of argument regarding the scientific character of psychoanalysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe grammar of paradox: Deciphering Winnicott's language theory.
Int J Psychoanal
February 2022
Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Tel Aviv, Israel.
This paper illuminates how the psychoanalytic work of Winnicott and Wittgenstein's philosophy on language complement each other in elucidating a "psychoanalytic language game". The paper takes a close look at the grammar and linguistic mechanisms which underlie psychoanalytic work. Wittgenstein's linguistic turn from positivism is discussed; his ideas like 'family resemblance', 'aspect seeing' and 'language games' are examined in order to shed light on the paradoxical communication at play in Winnicott's potential space.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFreud's dreams of reason: the Kantian structure of psychoanalysis.
Hist Human Sci
October 2009
Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston Univ.
Freud (and later commentators) have failed to explain how the origins of psychoanalytical theory began with a positivist investment without recognizing a dual epistemological commitment: simply, Freud engaged positivism because he believed it generally equated with empiricism, which he valued, and he rejected "philosophy," and, more specifically, Kantianism, because of the associated transcendental qualities of its epistemology. But this simple dismissal belies a deep investment in Kant's formulation of human reason, in which rationality escapes natural cause and thereby bestows humans with cognitive and moral autonomy. Freud also segregated human rationality: he divided the mind between (1) an unconscious grounded in the biological and thus subject to its own laws, and (2) a faculty of autonomous reason, lodged in consciousness and free of natural forces to become the repository of interpretation and free will.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Paradigm or paradigms in current clinical psychoanalysis].
Vertex
May 2009
Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina.
Since the creation of the psychoanalytical paradigm, at the very peak of positivism, there have been different contributions to this theory. Some of them were accepted and some were rejected for their inconsistency with the prevailing ideas of the time. This continues until the cultural/philosophical changes generate the appropriate setting for the paradigmatic deconstruction/ modification.
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