Psychoanalysis and Ethics

The Necessity of Perspective

David M. Black (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

150 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-58835-3 (ISBN)

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Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective is an attempt to look deeply into the relationship between psychoanalysis and ethics, and in particular into the failure of traditional psychoanalytic thinking to recognise the foundational character of ethical values.

In recent years, partly because of the climate crisis, the need for an "ethical turn" in our thinking has been recognised with increasing urgency. Using different historical lenses, and with special reference to the thought of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and pioneering American psychoanalysts such as Hans Loewald and Stephen Mitchell, the author discusses the perspectives needed in addition to those of science if the facts of "psychic reality" are to be more adequately recognised. In particular, this book emphasises the importance of a coherent account of the role of ethics in shaping the development both of the individual and of society.

Psychoanalysis and Ethics is essential reading for those concerned for the importance of ethics in psychoanalytic practice and theory, and more widely for those seeking to understand the place of ethics and religion in psychological development.

David M. Black is a Scottish writer and psychoanalyst, author of Why Things Matter: The Place of Values in Science, Psychoanalysis and Religion and editor of Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators? In 2022, his translation and commentary on Dante’s Purgatorio received the American National Translation Award for Poetry.

1. Introduction 2. The Working of Values in Ethics and Religion 3. Jonathan Lear: Heir to a Different Legacy 4. Who Founded Buddhism? Notes on the Psychological Action of Religious Objects 5. Dante's Two Suns: the Psychological Sources of the Divine Comedy 6. Dante, Duality and the Function of Allegory 7. Freud and Idealization 8. The Transcendent in Everyday Life 9. Religion as the Affirmation of Values 10. Levinas's Re-Basing of Religion

Erscheinungsdatum	03.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	The New Library of Psychoanalysis
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-032-58835-7 / 1032588357
ISBN-13	978-1-032-58835-3 / 9781032588353
Zustand	Neuware