Taking elements of Ricoeur's thought, practicing psychoanalysts shed light on the psychoanalytic tradition and enrich clinical reflection.
Beginning with Sigmund Freud, the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis has been complicated, falling short of its mutually enriching potential. In his entire oeuvre, Paul Ricoeur made a sustained effort to construct an innovative bridge of linguistic-based alignment and connection between the two disciplines. This volume builds on that bridge and contributes to a long-overdue dialogue.
Ricoeur both embraced and challenged the Freudian legacy. His engagement with the Freudian opus was a vehicle for his philosophical anthropology, emphasizing the future orientation of imagination and the power of the possible. Over the last sixty years, psychoanalysis has slowly moved in the direction of broadening analytic theory, but the impact of Ricoeur's challenging commentary has continued to evolve. The contributors to this volume explore this evolution, clarifying the connections between philosophy and psychoanalysis and finally bringing the two into fruitful conversation.
This volume features contributions by a diverse group of practicing psychoanalysts, who take elements of the thought of Paul Ricoeur to shed light on the connections between philosophy and psychoanalysis.
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This collection of essays, most by practicing psychoanalysts, offers an illuminating rethinking of the interrelation between the thought of Paul Ricoeur and psychoanalysis. The collection also benefits its readers by introducing into psychoanalytic thinking topics from Ricoeur that might initially seem divergent from the field, such as his work on metaphor, imagination, narrative, and the relation between explanation and understanding. In turn, the psychoanalytic engagement with these themes expands their implications. The inclusion of case studies in many of the chapters is a considerable additional contribution demonstrating the merit of Ricoeurian topics not only in theory but in practice. -- George Taylor * University of Pittsburgh, USA * This volume responds to the prescient decades-old invitation by Ricoeur to engage in a vitalizing dialogue that begins to form a bridge between philosophy and psychoanalysis. Fallibility is embraced and addressed through vulnerability and interpersonal hermeneutical two-person sense making, both within the clinical dyad and across disciplines. -- Stephen Friedman * William Alanson White Institute, USA * A vital and welcome contribution to our understanding of Paul Ricoeur and the impact of his philosophy across disciplines. This impressive collection of essays, ably arranged and edited by interpersonal psychoanalysts, brings together seasoned writers who reflect on Ricoeurs essential relevance for clinical endeavors. -- Roger Frie * University of Vienna, Austria * In this illuminating volume, editors Jeffrey Sacks and Pascal Sauvayre invite contemporary authors into dialogue with the legacy of Paul Ricoeur. The authors thus offer a rare clarity, translating complex philosophical insights into the language of lived experience. A grand text emerges. -- Stephanie Arel * Fordham University, USA *
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This volume features contributions by a diverse group of practicing psychoanalysts, who take elements of the thought of Paul Ricoeur to shed light on the connections between philosophy and psychoanalysis.
Notes on Contributors
Part 1: Introduction and the Criteria for Analytic Experience
Introduction, Jeffrey Sacks (Willam Alanson White Institute, NY, USA) and
Pascal Sauvayre (Willam Alanson White Institute, NY, USA)
1. Ricoeurs Criteria of Analytic Experience, Michael Becker (Willam Alanson
White Institute, NY, USA)
Part 2: Intersubjectivity
2. Intersubjectivity, Transference, Metaphor: Hegel, Freud, Ricoeur, Molly
MacDonald (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Part 3: Narration
3. Narration and Norms: Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of Narrative and the Normative
Structure of the Psyche, Michael J. Thompson, (William Paterson University,
NJ, USA, and William Alanson White Institute, NY, USA)
4. Never the Master: Psychoanalytic Clinical Experience between Hermeneutics
and Anti-Hermeneutics, Katharina Rothe (Sigmund Freud Private University
Berlin, Germany, and William Alanson White Institute, NY, USA) and Pascal
Sauvayre
5. From Sign to Metaphor: A Ricoeurian Case Study, Sean Meggeson (Toronto
Psychoanalytic Institute, Canada)
Part 4: Inventive Imagination
6. The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: Interpretation as Inventive Imagination,
Faroudja Hocini (Université Paris Cité, France), trans. Pascal Sauvayre
7. A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Productive Imagination from Paul Ricoeurs
Lectures on Imagination, Michael Monhart (Jungian Psychoanalytic Association
and the Blanton-Peale Institute, NY, USA)
8. The Pictorial Foundation of Psychoanalysis in Ricoeur's Writing:
Implications for Clinical Work, Orsi Hunyady (William Alanson White
Institute, NY, USA)
Part 5: Faith
9. Faithful Suspicion: Ricoeur between Freud and Hegel, Gal Katz (William
Alanson White Institute, NY, USA)
10. An Overdue Conversation: Does Contemporary Psychoanalysis Have Anything
to Say to Ricoeur's Critique of Freud's Atheism, Daniel Rosengart (John Jay
College of Criminal Justice, NY, USA)
Afterword. Afterwards: From Analysis to Synthesis, from the Hermeneutics of
Suspicion to a Synthesis with Affirmation, Jeffrey Sacks
Index
Jeffrey Sacks is Supervising Analyst and Chief Psychiatrist at the William Alanson White Institute, New York, USA. Pascal Sauvayre is Training Analyst and faculty member at the William Alanson White Institute, New York, USA.
