Dialogue Between Evolving Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophical Anthropology

Jeffrey Sacks is Supervising Analyst and Chief Psychiatrist at the William Alanson White Institute, New York, USA.Pascal Sauvayre is Training Analyst and faculty member at the William Alanson White Institute, New York, USA.

This collection of essays, most by practicing psychoanalysts, offers an illuminating rethinking of the interrelation between the thought of Paul Ricoeur and psychoanalysis. The collection also benefits its readers by introducing into psychoanalytic thinking topics from Ricoeur that might initially seem divergent from the field, such as his work on metaphor, imagination, narrative, and the relation between explanation and understanding. In turn, the psychoanalytic engagement with these themes expands their implications. The inclusion of case studies in many of the chapters is a considerable additional contribution demonstrating the merit of Ricoeurian topics not only in theory but in practice.

• Notes on ContributorsPart 1: Introduction and the Criteria for Analytic ExperienceIntroduction, Jeffrey Sacks (Willam Alanson White Institute, NY, USA) and Pascal Sauvayre (Willam Alanson White Institute, NY, USA)1. Ricoeur’s Criteria of Analytic Experience, Michael Becker (Willam Alanson White Institute, NY, USA)Part 2: Intersubjectivity2. Intersubjectivity, Transference, Metaphor: Hegel, Freud, Ricoeur, Molly MacDonald (Queen Mary University of London, UK)Part 3: Narration3. Narration and Norms: Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of Narrative and the Normative Structure of the Psyche, Michael J. Thompson, (William Paterson University, NJ, USA, and William Alanson White Institute, NY, USA)4. Never the Master: Psychoanalytic Clinical Experience between Hermeneutics and Anti-Hermeneutics, Katharina Rothe (Sigmund Freud Private University Berlin, Germany, and William Alanson White Institute, NY, USA) and Pascal Sauvayre5. From Sign to Metaphor: A Ricoeurian Case Study, Sean Meggeson (Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute, Canada)Part 4: Inventive Imagination6. The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: Interpretation as Inventive Imagination, Faroudja Hocini (Université Paris Cité, France), trans. Pascal Sauvayre7. A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Productive Imagination from Paul Ricoeur’s Lectures on Imagination, Michael Monhart (Jungian Psychoanalytic Association and the Blanton-Peale Institute, NY, USA)8. The Pictorial Foundation of Psychoanalysis in Ricoeur's Writing: Implications for Clinical Work, Orsi Hunyady (William Alanson White Institute, NY, USA)Part 5: Faith9. Faithful Suspicion: Ricoeur between Freud and Hegel, Gal Katz (William Alanson White Institute, NY, USA)10. An Overdue Conversation: Does Contemporary Psychoanalysis Have Anything to Say to Ricoeur's Critique of Freud's Atheism, Daniel Rosengart (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY, USA)Afterword. Afterwards: From Analysis to Synthesis, from the Hermeneutics of Suspicion to a Synthesis with Affirmation, Jeffrey SacksIndex