Psychotherapy and Phenomenology: On Freud, Husserl and Heidegger

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Psychotherapy and Phenomenology: On Freud, Husserl and Heidegger
By Ian Owen


  

Publisher:  iUniverse, Inc.
Number Of Pages:  372
Publication Date:  2006-12-03
ISBN-10 / ASIN:  0595417523
ISBN-13 / EAN:  9780595417520


Product Description:

This book is a scholarly mongraph on Sigmund Freud's understanding of the basics of psychotherapy theory and practice from the perspective of phenomenology. Two leading phenomenologists, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, are chosen to make an appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of Freud's interpretation of talking and relating with others. Heidegger is then compared to Husserl to produce a position that keeps a focus on intentionality yet accepts the understanding offered by hermeneutics. This work is relevant to psychotherapists, philosophers and philosophically-interested human scientists who value qualitative approaches to meaning.



Contents

List of Illustrations ix
Key to abbreviations and original German works xi
Preface xv
Part I The problem of the naturalistic attitude
Chapter 1 Introduction 3
Chapter 2 Setting the scene 11
Chapter 3 Towards a formal hermeneutics for psychological understanding 24
Part II On the received wisdom of psychodynamics
Chapter 4 Freud’s understanding of transference 45
Chapter 5 Freud’s understanding of intersubjectivity 65
Part III The challenge of Husserl
Chapter 6 An experiential introduction to phenomenology 85
Chapter 7 Some basic points of reference 95
Chapter 8 Understanding phenomenology 116
Chapter 9 The phenomena of Cartesian Meditations 129
Chapter 10 The moments of the meaningful whole 147
Part IV A Husserlian critique of Freud
Chapter 11 Introducing the consequences for interpretation and practice 171
Chapter 12 Criticisms of Freud 188
Chapter 13 A new interpretation of intersubjectivity 210
Part V Developing a hermeneutic pure psychology
Chapter 14 Heidegger on hermeneutics 237
Chapter 15 Intentionality, temporality, context 261
Chapter 16 Towards a hermeneutic phenomenology 282
Chapter 17 Making phenomenology work 308
Chapter 18 Conclusions for the theory and practice of psychotherapy 326
Bibliography 333



Preface

The ideas of Sigmund Freud, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger have been influential in psychology and psychotherapy. Although there is a whole school of psychotherapy that has grown around Martin Heidegger’s critique of Sigmund Freud, there is no encounter between Freud’s talking therapy with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, the two most central contributors to the branch of philosophy called phenomenology. After some research there appears to be no scholarly book-length appraisal of Husserl and Heidegger’s contributions to therapy.
The three men had views on how the mind relates to what does and does not exist. What is interesting for therapists is how the ideas and practice of Freud can be developed by a more precise view of what appears. There is criticism of Freud from the position of Husserl and then an encounter between Husserl and Heidegger in order to bring out some of the commonalities and differences, so that the perspective from which Freud is criticised becomes clearer. This book is not directly about practice but about theory for it. This text focuses on the mind of others and oneself. It aims to understand consciousness. Consciousness is the means through which we live our connection with other people, our connection with ideas, music and—in every sense, the world. Although one will never see a consciousness by itself, it is an everyday occurrence to make sense of people and oneself as having a mind and interpreting actions as, very often, purposefully sought-after, rather than as random or inadvertent. Where this work ends is in an argument for the appreciation of the intellectual, affective and social processes that combine to make psychological sense. These investigations of the theory of mind focus on conscious psychological meanings.[...]

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