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Psychoanalysis, colonialism, racism [PDF]
Postcolonial theory has been ambivalent towards psychoanalysis, for good reasons. One of them is the general suspicion of psychological approaches, with their individualistic focus and general history of neglect of sociohistorical concerns. Additionally,
Frosh, Stephen
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German-language culture and the Slav stranger within [PDF]
The aim of this article is to delineate the symbolic position of the Slavonic, and in particular the Czech, in German-language Austrian culture of the period 1890–1940. My approach will be informed by psychoanalysis.
Beasley-Murray, T.
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Psychoanalysis and neurosciences: fuzzy outlines? Notes on the notion of cerebral plasticity [PDF]
“Psychoanalysis versus psychiatry” and “unconscious versus brain” are classic oppositions between different perspectives on the human being and mental suffering.
Mantilla, Maria Jimena
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Psychologization or the discontents of psychoanalysis [PDF]
This article explores the possibility of a debate between psychoanalysis and the human sciences and, in particular, between psychoanalysis and psychology.
De Vos, Jan
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The science of psychoanalysis [PDF]
For psychoanalysis to qualify as scientific psychology, it needs to generate data that can evidentially support theoretical claims. Its methods, therefore, must at least be capable of correcting for biases produced in the data during the process of ...
Lacewing, Michael
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The epistemic predicament of a pseudoscience: social constructivism confronts Freudian psychoanalysis [PDF]
Social constructivist approaches to science have often been dismissed as inaccurate accounts of scientific knowledge. In this paper, we take the claims of robust social constructivism seriously and attempt to find a theory which does instantiate the ...
Boudry, Maarten, Buekens, Filip
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Causation in Psychoanalysis [PDF]
It has been argued that psychoanalytic and biological theories cannot be integrated because they rely on different epistemological grounds, namely on hermeneutic versus causal explanations, that are inconsistent with each other. Such inconsistency would seriously question the general possibility of neuropsychoanalytic research.
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Our clinical practice is contextualized by a co-participant trauma constituted by a confluence of upheavals-pandemic, politics, an epistemological crisis, pervasive distrust of expertise and evidence. Psychoanalytic work, parallel to the external world, has become defamiliarized, if not, at sometimes unrecognizable.
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Psychoanalysis, Nazism and "Jewish science" [PDF]
In this paper the author offers a partial examination of the troubled history of psychoanalysis in Germany during the Nazi period. Of particular interest is the impact on psychoanalysis of its 'Jewish origins'--something denigrated by the Nazis but ...
Frosh, Stephen
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