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Psychoanalysis, Mysticism and the Problem of Epistemology: Defining the Indefinable

Psychoanalysis, Mysticism and the Problem of Epistemology: Defining the Indefinable

Hardcover

Series: Psyche and Soul

PhilosophyGeneral PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 1032061189
ISBN13: 9781032061184
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 10 2021
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.48
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book presents key psychoanalytic theories from a fresh perspective: that of the mystical element.

The author explores the depth-structure of central assumptions in psychoanalytic theory to uncover the mystical core of conventional analytic thinking. Exploring authors from Freud and Ferenczi, through Bion and Winnicott, to contemporary voices such as Ogden, Bollas and Eigen, the book shows that psychoanalysis has always operated on the assumption of psychic overlap, a soul-to-soul contact, between patient and analyst. Surprisingly, the book shows how this magical facet goes hand in hand with a pragmatic worldview that explores the epistemological complexities of psychoanalysis in search of a way to join the subjective, even the mystical, with the practical aim of serving as a validated mental health discipline. This is accomplished through an interdisciplinary and intertextual encounter between psychoanalysis and the innovative pairing of William James' pragmatic philosophy and Martin Buber's dialogic thought. The author's paradoxical stance surrounding the nature and role of psychoanalysis and its mystical facet resonate the great challenge embedded in Winnicott's insistence on tolerating paradox and Bion's demand to respect all parts of the (psychoanalytic) truth, in this case, the practical and mundane alongside the mystical and magical.

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