Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology

by George E. Atwood, Robert D. Stolorow

The first of the three Analytic Press books in which Stolorow and Atwood (later with the collaboration of Bernard Brandchaft) reformulate psychoanalysis as a science of human intersubjectivity. Here the authors explore the "structures of subjectivity" that organize the subjective world, focusing on intersubjectivity in development, in pathogenesis, and in the therapeutic situation.

Genres: Psychoanalysis

Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

Reviews

[xenia · Rating 4 out of 5]

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Interesting Heideggerian reworking of Freud, that seeks to ground psychic being in relational becoming, thus rescue psychology from its metaphysical tendencies.

Strong focus on undoing reification, but through Dilthey's materialist framework rather than Marx's, which means the book unfortunately never gets to the level of a historical or genealogical exploration of w h y metaphysics has dominated us for so long. It instead falters at this point, positing it's own metaphysical and ahistorical narrative of "cuz we're mortal and das spooky, so we gotta become immortal 2 not b spookd."

Would suggest supplementing with postcolonialism / anthropology. Colonial fragility, etcc. Master slave, blah.