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Insight: Essays on Psychoanalytic Knowing

Author(s) : Jorge L. Ahumada

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'This is an important, illuminating book by one of the few psychoanalysts who are intellectually equipped to deal authoritatively with the crucially important links between our failure to improve methods for evaluating clinical evidence and the culture wars in psychoanalysis in recent decades.'
- Dale Boesky, from the Foreword

Contents: Preface. Boesky, Foreword. Introduction: On the Place and Limits of Psychoanalytic Knowing. Logical Types and Ostensive Insight. Interpretation and Creationism. What is a Clinical Fact? Clinical Psychoanalysis as Inductive Method. Body, Meaning and Language. Fact, Context, Image, Narrative: A Bio-logical Approach. Toward the Epistemology of Clinical Psychoanalysis. Disclosures and Refutations: Clinical Psychoanalysis as a Logic of Enquiry. Counter-induction in Psychoanalytic Practice: Epistemic and Technical Aspects . Logical Levels and Transference. The Double Work on the Clinical Evidences, and the Nature and Limits of Symbolization. The Analytic Mind at Work. Counter-inductive Knowledge and the Blunders of so-called 'Theory of Science'. Postscript: 'What hath God wrought?' A Plea for Insight in Media Society.