Whose Freud?: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Part One Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents......Page 24
Introduction......Page 26
Unconscious Deeps and Empirical Shallows......Page 30
Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents......Page 44
Quandaries of the Incest Taboo......Page 50
The Vortex Beneath the Story......Page 58
Discussion......Page 62
Part Two Psychoanalysis: Between Therapy and Hermeneutics?......Page 76
Introduction......Page 78
Is Anatomy Destiny? Freud and Biological Determinism......Page 82
Bridging the Gap Between Two Scenes......Page 104
Psychoanalysis as a Hermeneutic Science......Page 107
The Pain in the Patient’s Knee......Page 127
Discussion......Page 141
Part Three Psychoanalysis and Sexual Identity......Page 150
Introduction......Page 152
Freud and Homosexuality......Page 155
The Language of Care......Page 161
Speaking Psychoanalysis......Page 165
Discussion......Page 170
Part Four Psychoanalysis and the Historiography of Modern Culture......Page 184
Introduction......Page 186
Reflections on Trauma, Absence, and Loss......Page 189
States of Emergency: Toward a Freudian Historiography of Modernity......Page 216
Early Modern Subjectivity and the Place of Psychoanalysis in Cultural Analysis: The Case of Richard Norwood......Page 222
Whose Psychohistory?......Page 233
Discussion......Page 240
Part Five Psychoanalysis and Theories of Mind......Page 254
Introduction......Page 256
Can Psychoanalysis and Cognitive-Emotional Neuroscience Collaborate in Remodeling Our Concept of Mind-Brain?......Page 259
Freud’s Neuromental Model: Analytic Structures and Local Habitations......Page 266
Freud’s Theory of the Mind and Modern Functional Imaging Experiments......Page 278
The Changing Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind......Page 286
Discussion......Page 292
Part Six Psychoanalysis: What Kind of Truth?......Page 302
Introduction......Page 304
Psychoanalytical Theory and Kinds of Truth......Page 307
On Truth......Page 311
Truth in Psychoanalysis......Page 315
What Kind of Truth?......Page 322
Discussion......Page 335
List of Contributors......Page 344
Index......Page 348