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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 55, No. 3, 1995 Scientific Meetings of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis Edited by Joan Gross, C5.W. and Betsy Hallerman, CS.W. STRUCTURALIST VERSUS POSTSTRUCTURALIST PERSPECTIVES ON SESSION FIVE OF THE ANALYSIS OF C Presenters: Douglas H. Ingrain, M.D., and Kenneth Winarick, Ph.D. Moderator: Jeffrey Rubin, M.D. Thursday, January 26, 1995 In the spirit of friendly rivalry, Drs. Winarick and Ingram departed from tradi- tional scientific meeting format as they participated in a vigorous debate on the merits of structuralist and poststructuralist perspectives on psychoanalytic practice. By the flip of the coin, Winarick initiated the debate with his argument in favor of a structuralist position. He described in classical analytic terms the series of com- promise formations that determine character structure, and asserted that the re- peated appearance of these patterns in clinical data argues for the validity of a structuralist approach. Taking the postmodernist viewpoint to task, Winarick refuted its tenets, arguing that the reference point for reality is unconscious fantasy life, and not language and context, as the postmodernists hold. He asserted that the aban- donment of the notion of "objective reality" renders psychoanalysis a basically her- meneutic discipline, which
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals
Published: Sep 1, 1995
Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
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