Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy

Aner Govrin, Ph.D., is a philosopher, clinical psychologist, and psychoanalyst. He is the Director of the doctoral track "Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics" in the Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies program at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. In addition, he is a member of the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TAICP). Govrin is the editor of the Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series and the author of Ethics and Attachment: How We Make Moral Judgments (Routledge, 2015) and Conservative and Radical Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Knowledge: The Fascinated and the Disenchanted (Routledge, 2019).Tair Caspi, Ph.D. is a senior clinical psychologist, and lecturer in the doctoral program of Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics track, Bar-Ilan University. She is an associate editor of the Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series. Caspi is author of Metaphors in Psychoanalysis: Reflecting on the Language of Klein, Winnicott, and Ogden (Resling Publishing, 2020). Additionally, she has published several journal articles and book chapters on the intersection between psychoanalysis and the philosophy of language.

'From its very beginnings, psychoanalysis has had an uneasy, even mistrustful, relationship to philosophy. Recognizing that they are interested in many overlapping issues, practitioners of both disciplines are dubious of both the methods and the conclusions of the other; the result is that opportunities for cross-fertilization are easily overlooked. In this Handbook, Aner Govrin and Tair Caspi create a conversation that aims to capitalize on the potential for mutual enrichment that is possible when psychoanalysts and philosophers carefully and respectfully address shared concerns. The editors have assembled a distinguished group of authors; some are psychoanalysts, some philosophers, and many are both. The result is a collection that is sure to engage and inform readers interested in deepening their understanding of some of the most foundational themes of both psychoanalysis and philosophy.'Jay Greenberg, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute, USA. Former Editor of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and recipient of the Mary S. Sigourney Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis, 2015.'Freud always thought that psychoanalysis would take over from the philosophy of mind and make it redundant. He seems to have been wrong because Aner Govrin and Tair Caspi, the editors, have collected a significant team of contemporary philosophers from around the world who are still investigating just how the two disciplines compare, contrast, discount each other or can collaborate together. So, what has psychoanalysis done with philosophy and for philosophy, they ask; and also philosophy for psychoanalysis. There is a landmark quality about this extensive compendium of these two overlapping and penetrating disciplines. These thirty-three Chapters pick out the interacting schools – both philosophical and psychoanalytic – and the multiple philosophical influences on our confusing dispersion of the psychoanalytic schools. This wide-ranging gathering of knowledgeable philosophers and psychoanalysts will tell us, and if they don’t, then they give us much to think about for ourselves. It is for reference, frequent reference.'Bob Hinshelwood, Professor Emeritus, University of Essex, UK'Panoramic in scope and scholarly in execution, the Handbook edited by Aner Govrin and Tair Caspi brings together contributions from some of today’s leading thinkers across both disciplines, including philosophically-engaged practising psychoanalysts, to present a stimulating overview of contemporary developments. What struck me most about this collection is the multiple ways in which the essays variously bring the old and the established into innovative dialogue with the new and the forward-looking. Traditional giants of philosophy and enduring philosophical themes are here cross-fertilized with traditional giants of post-Freudian and enduring psychoanalytic issues. What emerges is a series of fresh perspectives on important topics on the interface of both disciplines some of these perspectives unfolding in the light of contemporary movements and concerns. There are some real gems amongst these contributions, and I expect that different readers will be rewarded by finding their own different favourites. I recommend this handbook as a valuable and thought-provoking collection giving a timely snapshot of forward-looking twenty-first-century thinking about the interface between psychoanalysis and philosophy. In my view it will stand the test of time as a significant contribution to demonstrating that psychoanalysis and philosophy simply cannot do without each other.'Agnes Petocz, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Western Sydney University, Australia. Author of Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism (CUP, 1999)

• Introduction Part I - Philosophical Traditions and Psychoanalysis 1. Freud's Theory of Freedom: Between Kant's Faith and Schopenhauer's Pessimism 2. Hegel's Contributions to Psychoanalysis: Theory of Mind, Dialectics, and Projective Identification 3. Nietzsche, Psychoanalysis, Nihilism 4. Psychoanalysis Finds a Home: Emotional Phenomenology 5. Bridging Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Hermeneutic Pathway Between the Disciplines 6. Wittgenstein: Disciple of Freud? 7. Freud and the Legacy of Sensory Physiology 8. Trauma and Language Part II - Psychoanalytic Schools 9. Freud and the Unconscious 10. The Foundations of the Psychoanalytic Theories of Freud, Klein and Bion Compared 11. Fairbairn's 'Psychology of Dynamic Structure' and Philosophy 12. From Freud To Winnicott: Aspects of Paradigm Change 13. Kohut's Self Psychology, Ethics, and Modern Society 14. What Is Intersubjectivity: From Phenomenology to Psychoanalysis 15. Subject and Subjecthood: From Philosophy to Psychoanalysis 16. Is Jung a Philosopher of Religion as well as a Psychologist of Religion? Part III - Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Truth 17. The Anxieties of Truth in Psychoanalytic and Philosophic Thought 18. Truth and Psychoanalysis 19. Metaphors and the Question of Truth in Psychoanalytic Language 20. Facts and Sensibilities: What Is a Psychoanalytic Innovation? 21. Psychoanalytic Evidence: The Old and the New Part IV - Philosophical Debates 22. The Psychoanalytic das Ich: Lost in Translation 23. Subjectivity in Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience - From World-Brain Relation over Neuro-Ecological Self to the Point of View 24. Psychoanalysis, Self-Deception, and the Problem of Teleology 25. A-Rationality: The Views of Freud and Wittgenstein Explored 26. Intersubjectivity and Responsibility in Relational Psychoanalysis and Modern Jewish Philosophy 27. Ethics of Discontent Part V - Applied Subjects 28. What can Psychoanalysis Tell Us about Cyberspace? 29. Psychoanalysis, Race and Colonialism 30. Narcissism in Religion 31. The Missing Signifier and a Malfunctioning Paternal Law: On the Feminine Third as Vital Portal for Sexual Difference and Emancipatory Democracy 32. Ecopsychoanalysis and Climate Psychology 33. The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Thinking About Aesthetics