Where is Psychoanalysis Going?
Where is Psychoanalysis Going?
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精神分析将走向何方?
DOI:
10.1177/014107688507800702
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发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
17.3
通讯作者:
C. Rycroft
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作者:
C. Rycroft
There are several possible answers to the question 'Where is psychoanalysis going?', since psychoanalysis is not, of course, a single thing or object only capable of movement in one direction of only going up or down, forwards or backwards or sideways but a set of ideas, techniques and activities subject to change, development, reformulation and reassessment, which exists not in a vacuum but in a social, intellectual, moral milieu that is itself subject to change -and which has, indeed, changed profoundly since 1896 when Freud first used the term 'psychoanalysis' to describe the form of psychotherapy he began to develop after he abandoned hypnosis in favour of 'free association'. It is now 89 years since psychoanalysis began to get going and, incidentally, 73 years since, following Freud's quarrel with Jung or should it be Jung's quarrel with Freud? -it underwent fission and started going in two directions at once, and it became necessary for anyone wishing to have a training in analysis to decide in advance, often on grossly inadequate evidence, whether he was going to become a Freudian or a Jungian. These two dates, 1896 and 1912, are mentioned to draw attention to the fact that psychoanalysis began and suffered its first major split before most of us now practising were born, and to suggest that two of the several possible answers to the question 'Where is psychoanalysis going?' hinge quite simply upon the passage of time. First, psychoanalysis, at least as Freud formulated and understood it, is moving out of the contemporary present into the historical past. Nowadays students who wish to know about the origins of psychoanalysis, about the genesis of Freud's ideas, about the intellectual and social matrix out of which psychoanalysis arose, about the personal and philosophical incompatibilities that resulted in the Freud-Jung split, are no longer dependent on the obviously partisan accounts left by Freud and Jung and their loyal and devoted disciples, but can instead turn to the work of professional historians and biographers who are concerned not with the dissemination of myths and legends about idealized heroes, but with getting the record straight, with unearthing lost or hidden documentary evidence, and with putting ideas and people into their historical and social context (Clark 1980, Sulloway 1979, Brome 1978, Steele 1982). Secondly, now that the Founding Fathers and their immediate successors and disciples are passing into history, psychoanalysis is beginning to extricate itself from its earlier compulsion to refight the battles of yesteryear and from the tend-