| Titel: | Book Review: La Petite Maison De L’âMe |
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| Autor: | Kirshner, Lewis A. |
| Mediengruppe: | journal article |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association |
| Jahr: | 2010 |
| Band: | 58 |
| Heft: | 3 |
| Seiten: | 593-596 |
| Sprache: | English |
| Abstract: | Reviews the book, "La petite maison de l’âme" by Laurence Kahn (1993). La petite maison de l’âme (The Little House of the Soul) is a collection of essays that together and separately take up a number of unresolved issues in psychoanalytic theory and practice, including Freud’s conceptions of history and the infantile, and, pari passu, in Greek mythology, as if to demonstrate a kind of latent unity of thought that points to a fundamental truth of origins. It is a dense and difficult work that distills many of the central preoccupations of French psychoanalysis, of which it must be considered one of the jewels in the crown. I mean this in two senses: it is at once a brilliant achievement of integration and scholarship and a kind of museum piece, a highlight of a remarkable period of psychoanalytic creativity in the last half of the twentieth century. Kahn’s meditation on these topics returns us to the fundamental questions raised by Freud and reawakens the excitement of his Copernican venture, but it does not offer us the integrative concepts that might help us extend his path into the unreceptive scientific and cultural terrain of twenty-first-century thought. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) |