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This book argues that properly understood, irony plays a crucial role in therapeutic action. It is written as an invitation to clinicians to renew their own engagement with the fundamental concepts of their practice. It investigates the concepts of subjectivity and objectivity that are appropriate for psychoanalysts, the concept of internalisation and of transference. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with the central concepts of psychoanalysis.
- Sales Rank: #963038 in eBooks
- Published on: 2003-09-01
- Released on: 2003-09-01
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Review
A profound yet succinct and non-technical discussion of the most important philosophical issues associated with psychoanalysis. -- The Times Literary Supplement, Sebastian Gardner, June 4, 2004
Lear engages the difficult question: how to write about the process of psychic change without betraying either love or science. -- Carol Gilligan, New York University
One of those rare books that can actually let you change the way you think and the way you live. -- Robert A. Paul. Ph.D.
Therapeutic Action has the high merit of helping me to rethink some of my own transferences. -- Harold Bloom, Yale University
From the Publisher
Prominent Professor and highly regarded author, Jonathan Lear invites clinicians -- psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists -- to renew their own engagement with the fundamental concepts of their practice.
From the Inside Flap
How can a conversation fundamentally change the structure of the human psyche? Jonathan Lear’s new work is concerned with not simply a mere change of belief that emerges out of conversation, not even massive changes of belief. Nor is he concerned only with changes in emotional life. Rather, he is concerned with basic changes in the ways the psyche functions. How could any conversation have such a result? There are three areas of inquiry which have addressed this question: religion, philosophy and psychoanalysis. Within psychoanalysis the form this question takes is: what is the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis? That is, what is it about the peculiar nature of psychoanalytic conversation that facilitates fundamental psychic change?
This book argues that, properly understood, irony plays a crucial role in therapeutic action. However, this insight has been difficult to grasp because the concept of irony has itself been distorted, covered over. It is regularly confused with sarcasm; it is often mistakenly assumed that if one is speaking ironically, one must mean the opposite of what one says, that one must be feigning ignorance, that irony and earnestness cannot go together. All of these assumptions are false. So, part of the therapeutic action of this book is conceptual therapy: we need to recover a vibrant sense of irony.
This book, then, is not merely about the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis, it is an enactment of conceptual therapy. It is thus written as an invitation to clinicians –psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists – to renew their own engagement with the fundamental concepts of their practice. To that end, the book investigates the concepts of subjectivity and objectivity that are appropriate for psychoanalysts, the concept of internalization and of transference. There is also an extended discussion of the theories of Hans Loewald and Paul Gray – and how they do and do not fit together. The very idea that love, or Eros, could be a drive – as Freud postulated – is given a new interpretation.
Therapeutic Action will be of interest to anyone concerned with the central concepts of psychoanalysis. And, indeed, to anyone interested in how conversation can bring about fundamental psychic change.
"Jonathan Lear’s Therapeutic Action vindicates its Oscar Wildean subtitle—An Earnest Plea for Irony—by giving us a Kierkigaardian reading, not so much of Hans Loewald, but of the transferences between Loewald and Lear. Just as the surviving traces of Plato in Freud was to identify reality-testing with a cognition freed of its sexual past, even so Lear attempts his own version of Kierkegaard’s ‘The Case of the Contemporary Disciple’. Lear is Plato to Loewald’s Socrates, which is an audacious venture. Therapeutic Action has the high merit of helping me to rethink some of my own transferences."—Harold Bloom
"Jonathan Lear’s psychoanalytic and philosophical sophistication have enabled him to produce a lucid, incisive, and convincing argument about how psychoanalysis leads to a better life through a particular deployment of the capacity for love. Anyone who loves rigorous, creative argument will find this encounter with Lear and his thinking about why the analytic conversation is transforming an intellectual experience of the highest and most exciting order. This is one of those rare books that can actually let you change the way you think and the way you live." —Robert A. Paul, Ph.D.
"In this bold and intriguing book, Jonathan Lear asks: how do psychoanalysts communicate not with their patients but with each other? Do the forms of psychoanalytic writing continue to reflect a distorted notion of scientific rigor? Do analysts in writing about therapeutic action ignore a key insight: that what they say matters less than how they say it? Does the health of the psychoanalytic profession currently hinge on analysts becoming more aware of how the form of their communication affects their lives as analysts? With these provocative questions, Lear returns to his own point of departure as an analyst: his conversations with Hans Loewald and Loewald’s paper on the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. Honoring the dying wish of his mentor, he seeks to discover in a field riddled with discipleship how not to become a disciple. And with this ultimately personal ‘how-not-to’ book, Lear engages the difficult question: how to write about the process of psychic change without betraying either love or science. Therapeutic Action will enliven the thinking of anyone involved in analyzing the psyche." —Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different Voice and The Birth of Pleasure
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
First draft of a great book
By Mark Pentecost
Lear's book is a continuation of Freud's "metapsychology," offering new ways to conceptualize some of what happens in psychoanalysis. His starting point is one which would seem obvious but is in fact rare in psychoanalytic writings (something which he comments on), namely, to "psychoanalyze" certain trends in psychoanalytic writing, that is, to speculate on the hidden motives, avoidances, and self-deceptions these trends might be covering. In doing so, he offers some brilliant insights, especially about subjectivity vs. "objectivity" and about transference. But Lear's book is an "easy read" because the writing is loose and casual. I found the scene-setting and run-up to his intellectual climaxes both rushed and drawn-out, the way you come to inspired thoughts during an all-nighter just before deadline, and afterwards you wish you had had the time to organize your whole essay around them from the start. Lear addresses himself very explicitly to the community of psychoanalysts (which at moments can be offputting to the uninitiated), and while his style is a refreshing change from the professional, impersonal prose of most analytic monographs, he also seems to address his peers as though they were laypersons. Furthermore, most of the book is organized as a commentary on a very influential essay by Hans Loewald, but by the end Loewald has disappeared, replaced by Heidegger and Kierkegaard. (Furthermore, Lear lets us know that he had weekly conversations--not, apparently, an analysis--with Loewald for several years, but never shares anything from those conversations with the reader. Very exasperating, and not just for Loewald fans.) I know I've spent more time in this review on the style than the substance, but as Lear asserts more than once in his book, the how of what is said is often more important than the what. I'll leave it to Lear to put his style on the couch. I'm inclined to excuse him: he's a practising analyst as well as a philosophy professor; he can't very well take a six- or twelve-month sabatical at a humanities center to make this the book it could have been. And that's a pity.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Lear Takes On Postmodernism
By A Customer
In this typically witty and delightful essay, Lear opens his mind to ironies of the psychoanalytic process, and in doing so finds reason to be suspicious of postmodern narratives of "intersubjectivity." This is a sort of return to Freud, or to more sympathetic readings of Freud, than we are used to these days. But Lear's take is postmodern, even if the postmodernists bug him, and this easy-to-read book will inspire new thoughts about old ideas across ideological spectrums.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Therapeutic Action
By Richard Feinberg
This book arrived on time and in excellent condition.
It should be required reading for anyone with some background in philosophy and psychoanalysis.
Very rich and enriching.
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