The psychoanalytic ear and the sociological eye: toward an American independent tradition 2019009236, 2019011957, 9780429026393, 9780367134211, 9780367134235

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Toward an American independent tradition
Acknowledgments
Note
Chapter 1: The American independent tradition: Loewald, Erikson, and the (possible) rise of intersubjective ego psychology
Notes
PART I: From Freud to Erikson
Chapter 2: Civilization and Its Discontents and beyond: drives, identity, and Freud’s sociology
Civilization and Its Discontents
Conclusions
Notes
Chapter 3: “The Question of a Weltanschauung,” “Thoughts for
the Times on War and Death,” and “Why War?”:
whatever happened to the link between psychoanalysis
and the social?
Notes
Chapter 4:
Born into a world at war: affect and identity in a war
baby cohort
Notes
PART II: The psychoanalytic vision of Hans Loewald
Chapter 5: The psychoanalytic vision of Hans Loewald
Loewald’s doubled vision
Primary undifferentiation and contemporary infant research
Loewald’s vision of the psyche
Loewald’s vision of psychoanalytic goals
Conclusions
Notes
Chapter 6: Reflections on Loewald’s “Internalization, Separation, Mourning, and the Superego”
Notes
Chapter 7: A different universe: reading Loewald through “On the
Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis”
Loewald’s opening paragraphs: introducing everything
Part I: Analytic stance
Part II: Interlude on the psychic apparatus
Part III: Analytic activity, the language of interpretation, and reintroducing the topographic
Part IV: Ghosts into ancestors
Recapitulation
Notes
PART III: American independence: theory and practice
Chapter 8: From behind the couch: uncertainty and indeterminacy in psychoanalytic theory and practice
Paradoxes of psychoanalytic self-knowledge
The paradox of self and other
The analyst’s viewpoint
Listening to and listening for
From analyst to patient
Notes
Chapter 9: Listening to James McLaughlin: tribute to an American independent
Notes
Chapter 10: Regard for otherness: reading Warren Poland
Notes
PART IV: Individuality as bedrock in the consulting room and beyond
Chapter 11: Toward an American independent tradition: recapitulation
Notes
Chapter 12: Beyond the dyad: individual psychology, social world
Notes
Chapter 13: Why is it easy to be a psychoanalyst and a feminist but not a psychoanalyst and a sociologist?
Notes
AFTERWORD: Could you direct me to the Individuology Department?
Chapter 14: “Could you direct me to the Individuology Department?” Psychoanalysis, the academy, and the self
Notes
Bibliography
Index