A Dialogue Between Evolving Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophical Anthropology
A Dialogue Between Evolving Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophical Anthropology
Description
Taking elements of Ricoeur's thought, practicing psychoanalysts shed light on the psychoanalytic tradition and enrich clinical reflection.
Beginning with Sigmund Freud, the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis has been complicated, falling short of its mutually enriching potential. In his entire oeuvre, Paul Ricoeur made a sustained effort to construct an innovative bridge of linguistic-based alignment and connection between the two disciplines. This volume builds on that bridge and contributes to a long-overdue dialogue.
Ricoeur both embraced and challenged the Freudian legacy. His engagement with the Freudian opus was a vehicle for his philosophical anthropology, emphasizing the future orientation of imagination and the power of the possible. Over the last sixty years, psychoanalysis has slowly moved in the direction of broadening analytic theory, but the impact of Ricoeur's challenging commentary has continued to evolve. The contributors to this volume explore this evolution, clarifying the connections between philosophy and psychoanalysis and finally bringing the two into fruitful conversation.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction and the Criteria for Analytic Experience
Introduction, Jeffrey Sacks (Willam Alanson White Institute, NY, USA) and Pascal Sauvayre (Willam Alanson White Institute, NY, USA)
1. Ricoeur's Criteria of Analytic Experience, Michael Becker (Willam Alanson White Institute, NY, USA)
Part 2: Intersubjectivity
2. Intersubjectivity, Transference, Metaphor: Hegel, Freud, Ricoeur, Molly MacDonald (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Part 3: Narration
3. Narration and Norms: Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of Narrative and the Normative Structure of the Psyche, Michael J. Thompson, (William Paterson University, NJ, USA, and William Alanson White Institute, NY, USA)
4. Never the Master: Psychoanalytic Clinical Experience between Hermeneutics and Anti-Hermeneutics, Katharina Rothe (The Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, CA, USA) and Pascal Sauvayre
5. From Sign to Metaphor: A Ricoeurian Case Study, Sean Meggeson (Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute, Canada)
Part 4: Inventive Imagination
6. The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: Interpretation as Inventive Imagination, Faroudja Hocini (Université Paris Cité, France), trans. Pascal Sauvayre
7. A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Productive Imagination from Paul Ricoeur's Lectures on Imagination, Michael Monhart (Jungian Psychoanalytic Association and the Blanton-Peale Institute, NY, USA)
8. The Pictorial Foundation of Psychoanalysis in Ricoeur's Writing: Implications for Clinical Work, Orsi Hunyady (William Alanson White Institute, NY, USA)
Part 5: Faith
9. Faithful Suspicion: Ricoeur between Freud and Hegel, Gal Katz (William Alanson White Institute, NY, USA)
10. An Overdue Conversation: Does Contemporary Psychoanalysis Have Anything to Say to Ricoeur's Critique of Freud's Atheism, Daniel Rosengart (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY, USA)
Afterword. Afterwards: From Analysis to Synthesis, from the Hermeneutics of Suspicion to a Synthesis with Affirmation, Jeffrey Sacks
Index
Product details
| Published | 19 Mar 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9798765155479 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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