Book description
A contemporary, wide-ranging exploration of one of the most provocative
topics currently under psychoanalytic investigation: the relationship of
dissociation to varieties of knowing and unknowing. The twenty-eight
essays collected here invite readers to reflect upon the ways the mind
is structured around and through knowing, not-knowing, and
sort-of-knowing or uncertainty. The authors explore the ramifications of
being up against the limits of what they can know as through their
clinical practice, and theoretical considerations, they simultaneously
attempt to open up psychic and physical experience. How, they ask, do we
tolerate ambiguity and blind spots as we try to know? And how do we make
all of this useful to our patients and ourselves?The authors approach
these and similar epistemological questions through an impressively wide
variety of clinical dilemmas (e. g., the impact of new technologies upon
the analytic dyad) and theoretical specialties (e. g., neurobiology).
Some of the numerous issues under examination here include important
and, in some instances, under-theorized topics in psychoanalysis such as
uncanny communication as the next frontier of intersubjectivity,
secrets, criminal violence, the relationship of the body to knowing,
disclosure of the analyst's joy, dissociative identity disorder,
pornography and sex workers.
