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In these pages... The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 52, No. 4, 1992 To what extent does the amalgamation of psychoanalytic theories weaken those same theories through homogenization and dilution? Per- haps repairing a defect in one theory with a competency from another damages both. In our last issue, we followed Michael Robbins, who in- jected a Fairbairnian perspective into self psychology. Briefly commenting on Robbins' position in this issue, Althea Homer joins in support of a broad vision of object relations that integrates nicely with self psychology. But then, notes Homer, self psychologists need to renounce the claims of their theory to specialness. In a similar vein though on a different subject, we find Leland van den Daele's efforts to conceive of the dream as a general-purpose language. His preceding work on this project is found in Number 2 of this journal volume. Referring to his approach as the method of direct interpretation, van den Daele seeks to unburden the dream-interpreting clinician of op- pressive metapsychologies. According to van den Daele, dreams deserve to be sorted on one axis by origin--endogenous, exogenous, or rela- tional-and on a second axis by complexity of internal organization. His typology of dreams arguably possesses the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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1992 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01253079
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Abstract

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 52, No. 4, 1992 To what extent does the amalgamation of psychoanalytic theories weaken those same theories through homogenization and dilution? Per- haps repairing a defect in one theory with a competency from another damages both. In our last issue, we followed Michael Robbins, who in- jected a Fairbairnian perspective into self psychology. Briefly commenting on Robbins' position in this issue, Althea Homer joins in support of a broad vision of object relations that integrates nicely with self psychology. But then, notes Homer, self psychologists need to renounce the claims of their theory to specialness. In a similar vein though on a different subject, we find Leland van den Daele's efforts to conceive of the dream as a general-purpose language. His preceding work on this project is found in Number 2 of this journal volume. Referring to his approach as the method of direct interpretation, van den Daele seeks to unburden the dream-interpreting clinician of op- pressive metapsychologies. According to van den Daele, dreams deserve to be sorted on one axis by origin--endogenous, exogenous, or rela- tional-and on a second axis by complexity of internal organization. His typology of dreams arguably possesses the

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The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Dec 1, 1992

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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