A relational model of inquiry and truth: The place of psychoanalysis in human conversation |
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| Authors: | Charles Spezzano PhD |
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| Institution: | 1. 2202 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, CA, 94115;2. The Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California , |
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| Abstract: | A challenge is offered to the characterization of psychoanalysis as suffering from potentially fatal epistemic flaws and needing to ground itself in the language of hermeneutics, neuropsychology, or infant observation in order to survive. Psychoanalytic truth is neither made up nor discovered. Psychoanalytic propositions are true in the important sense of being the most useful statements we can make right now about the nature and functioning of the human unconscious. Psychoanalytic theories evolve through rational critical discourse just as theories evolve in all fields of science and scholarship. |
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