Researching the Unconscious: Principles of Psychoanalytic Method

by Michael Rustin

Book Overview

Researching the Unconscious provides an exposition of key issues in the philosophy and methods of the social sciences that are relevant to psychoanalysis, both as a clinical practice and as a human science.

These include the debates initiated by Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions, the "actor-network theory" of Bruno Latour, the ideas of philosophical realism, distinctions between "meaningful" and "causal" explanation, and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138389196
• ISBN13: 9781138389199
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"