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Psychoanalysis, Ethics, and the Literary Imagination

Psychoanalysis, Ethics, and the Literary Imagination The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2009, 69, (266–277) © 2009 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/09 www.palgrave-journals.com/ajp/ Book Reviews Edited by Riva Tait, Ph.D. Benjamin Kilborne interviews author Martha Nussbaum Date of interview: May, 2006 PSYCHOANALYSIS, ETHICS, AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION Benjamin Kilborne : A theme of your many books (see Nussbaum, below and references) is the need to include the emotions in our ideals of judgment and rationality. Can you comment on how ideals of rationality have often not only been unreasonable and unrealistic but also intolerant (and self-serving)? Martha Nussbaum : The word “ rational ” is ambiguous. Used descriptively, it means “ containing thought ” or “ responsive to thought. ” Used normatively, it means “ containing good, sound thought. ” To focus fi rst on the descriptive sense, I argue, along with most contemporary philosophers and cognitive psychologists, that emotions contain thoughts: embedded in them are what psychologists call “ appraisals, ” value- laden ways of seeing the world. Grief perceives the lost person as both valuable and gone; it has a thought-content, and is quite different from the pain of indigestion. So Benjamin Kilborne, psychoanalyst, practicing in West Stockbridge, MA and a former http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Psychoanalysis, Ethics, and the Literary Imagination

Tait, Riva
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 69 (3) – Sep 29, 2009
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan
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Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
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0002-9548
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1573-6741
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10.1057/ajp.2009.8
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2009, 69, (266–277) © 2009 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/09 www.palgrave-journals.com/ajp/ Book Reviews Edited by Riva Tait, Ph.D. Benjamin Kilborne interviews author Martha Nussbaum Date of interview: May, 2006 PSYCHOANALYSIS, ETHICS, AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION Benjamin Kilborne : A theme of your many books (see Nussbaum, below and references) is the need to include the emotions in our ideals of judgment and rationality. Can you comment on how ideals of rationality have often not only been unreasonable and unrealistic but also intolerant (and self-serving)? Martha Nussbaum : The word “ rational ” is ambiguous. Used descriptively, it means “ containing thought ” or “ responsive to thought. ” Used normatively, it means “ containing good, sound thought. ” To focus fi rst on the descriptive sense, I argue, along with most contemporary philosophers and cognitive psychologists, that emotions contain thoughts: embedded in them are what psychologists call “ appraisals, ” value- laden ways of seeing the world. Grief perceives the lost person as both valuable and gone; it has a thought-content, and is quite different from the pain of indigestion. So Benjamin Kilborne, psychoanalyst, practicing in West Stockbridge, MA and a former

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