Symbolization: Proposing a Developmental Paradigm for a New Psychoanalytic Theory of Mind

Argues that psychoanalysis needs a new meta-theory, in order to establish its place within the framework of universal knowledge. The author proposes that the uniquely human process of symbolisation, within a comprehensive developmental framework, would provide this. In doing so she provides a new theoretical model for normality, pathology, and the central role of language in the theory of the cure. 435 pages.