Review Essay: Beyond the Fear of Intimacy

Can Love Last? The Fate of Romance Over Time by Stephen A. Mitchell (New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2002, 224 pp.)

This article reflects on the importance of Mitchell's work in the United Kingdom, where notions of intimacy sit uneasily with psychoanalytic practice. The author argues that a reluctance to take up intimacy in the consulting room has a deleterious effect on intimate relations outside it. Drawing on her work with women, in particular, she posits that the erotic is still an undertheorized area of relational analysis. Although most orthodox theory has been jettisoned, new theory is necessary for an understanding of what the author observes to be a “false” erotic in many of her patients in whom the erotic is temporarily available but is unreliable as a desire and as a source of identity.     

Review Essay: Constructivism,Dialectic, and Mortality

My approach in this review of Irwin Hoffman's Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process is historical and explicative. I discuss the book's reprinted works in their original publication sequence in order to highlight the emergence of themes over time. I then discuss the chapters written expressly for this volume in light of these themes.     

Review Essay: Psychoanalysis,Post-Modernism and the Lesbian Rule

Lesbian Lives and Sexual Subjects reflect important contemporary trends in feminism, postmodern literary studies, and relational psychoanalysis. Both books are critical of such traditional psychoanalytic ideas as drives and developmental stages. Although such an orientation leads to important insights and reconceptualizations, it may also relinquish other important values, such as stable sexual identity, the capacity to mourn for lost possibilities, and the ability to commit to real, limited projects. In addition, the denial of sex and aggression as motivating forces and the alternative emphasis on attachment lead paradoxically to an impoverished sense of independence and active agency. One of Magee's cases is discussed.     

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Studies in East European Thought -     

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Belief in God in an Age of Science , by John Polkinghorne
Genes, Genesis and God: Values and their Origins in Natural and Human History , by Holmes Rolston, III
The Genetic Gods: Evolution and Belief in Human Affairs , by John C. Avise     

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Pastoral Psychology -     

Essay Review

RADHIKA HERZBERGER, Bhartrhari and the Buddhists. An essay in the development of fifth and sixth century Indian thought. Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster, Tokyo: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1986. xxvi + 252 pp. DF1.145/$64/£40.25.     

Essay Review

Making human beings human: Bioecological perspectives on human development : Edited by U. Bronfenbrenner Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 2004. Pp. 336. Paperback, $34.95. ISBN 0761927123. Hardback, $74.95. ISBN 0761927115     

Essay Review

B. Russell, Foundations of logic 1903-05, The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 4, Edited by Urquhart, A. with the assistance of Lewis, A. C. London and New York:Routledge, 1994, Hi+ 743 pp. £100     

Essay Review

D. GABBAY and F. GUENTHNER (eds.), Handbook of philosophical logic. Volume 1: Elements of classical logic. Dordrecht, Boston, and Lancaster: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1983. xiv + 497 pp. Dfl225/$98.00.     

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Stephen Read, Philosophie der Logik. Eine Einführung, übersetzt von Martin Suhr. Reinbek bei Hamburg:Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, 1997. 312 pp, 26.90 DM (paper)

Peter Millican and Andy Clark (eds.), Machines and thought—the legacy of Alan Turing, I, Introduction by P. Millican. Oxford:Clarendon Press, 1996. 297 pp. £30.00. ISBN 0-19-823593-3

Roberto Pou and Peter M. Simons (eds.) Formal Ontology. Dordrecht:Kluwer, 1996. viii + 293 pp. DF1 220, $135, £99. ISBN 0792 34104x

Jaakko Hintikka, The principles of mathematics revisited. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1996. xii + 288. No price stated. ISBN 0 521 49692 6

Luis Vega Reñón, Una guia de historia de la logica. Madrid:Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, 1996. 271 pp. No price stated. ISBN 84 362 3372 7

Barry Smith, Austrian philosophy. The legacy of Franz Brentano. Chicago and La Salle, 111.:Open Court, 1994 (pbk 1996). xii + 381 pp. No price stated. ISBN 0 81260 9256 X

Hans Hahn, Gesammelte Abhandlungen, 3. Edited by L. Schmetterer and K. Sigmund. Vienna and New York:Springer, 1997.xiii + 581 pp. DM 198/Ös. 1386. ISBN 3 211 82781 1

Susan Haack, Deviant logic, fuzzy logic. Fuzzy logic, Beyond the formalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xxvi+292pp. No price stated. ISBN 0 226 31133 3 (cloth)/311341 (pbk)