Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One. Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents
6. Introduction 15
7. Unconscious Deeps and Empirical Shallows 19
8. Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents 33
9. Quandaries of the Incest Taboo 39
10. The Vortex Beneath the Story 47
11. Discussion 51
12. Part Two. Psychoanalysis: Between Therapy and Hermeneutics?
13. Introduction 67
14. Is Anatomy Destiny? Freud and Biological Determinism 71
15. Bridging the Gap Between Two Scenes 93
16. Psychoanalysis as a Hermeneutic Science 96
17. The Pain in the Patient’s Knee 116
18. Discussion 130
19. Part Three. Psychoanalysis and Sexual Identity
20. Introduction 141
21. Freud and Homosexuality 144
22. The Language of Care 150
23. Speaking Psychoanalysis 154
24. Discussion 159
25. Part Four. Psychoanalysis and the Historiography of Modern Culture
26. Introduction 175
27. Reflections on Trauma, Absence, and Loss 178
28. States of Emergency: Toward a Freudian Historiography of Modernity 205
29. Early Modern Subjectivity and the Place of Psychoanalysis in Cultural Analysis: The Case of Richard Norwood 211
30. Whose Psychohistory? 222
31. Discussion 229
32. Part Five. Psychoanalysis and Theories of Mind
33. Introduction 245
34. Can Psychoanalysis and Cognitive-Emotional Neuroscience Collaborate in Remodeling Our Concept of Mind-Brain? 248
35. Freud’s Neuromental Model: Analytic Structures and Local Habitations 255
36. Freud’s Theory of the Mind and Modern Functional Imaging Experiments 267
37. The Changing Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind 275
38. Discussion 281
39. Part Six. Psychoanalysis: What Kind of Truth?
40. Introduction 293
41. Psychoanalytical Theory and Kinds of Truth 296
42. On Truth 300
43. Truth in Psychoanalysis 304
44. What Kind of Truth? 311
45. Discussion 324
46. Contributors 333
47. Index 337