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The changing image of psychoanalysis

The changing image of psychoanalysis THE CHANGING IMAGE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS HAROLD KELMAN UR TOPIC CONTAINS T~RMS requiring statically repetitive and destructively O definition. Implicitly it raises a host strangulating. Their discard often came of questions, What is an Image? It is a only after "dark ages" and violence. form and a vision. Being a changing Those civilizations incapable of shedding image, it is a sequence of patternings them, due to a "failure of nerve," became extinct, as have plant and emerging from a creating process. That animal forms, also because of an ex- process reflects its context. It delimits haustion of adaptative mutant possi- what has been appropriate. But, as bilities. creative vision, it must point the way This new kind of seeing is integral to toward possible futures. Because '!Where there is no vision, the people perish." the evolutionary process and essential (Proverbs, 29:18) to its continuation. Evolution, imper- sonal and amoral, produced a moral In the brief existence of psychoanalysis animal, man, for whom it does not and no image was or could be final and cannot care, as it cannot for itself, and right. Pressures to stay with the static to whom it gave no certainty of per- express fears of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

The changing image of psychoanalysis

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 26 (2): 9 – Sep 1, 1966

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
1966 The Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01873433
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Abstract

THE CHANGING IMAGE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS HAROLD KELMAN UR TOPIC CONTAINS T~RMS requiring statically repetitive and destructively O definition. Implicitly it raises a host strangulating. Their discard often came of questions, What is an Image? It is a only after "dark ages" and violence. form and a vision. Being a changing Those civilizations incapable of shedding image, it is a sequence of patternings them, due to a "failure of nerve," became extinct, as have plant and emerging from a creating process. That animal forms, also because of an ex- process reflects its context. It delimits haustion of adaptative mutant possi- what has been appropriate. But, as bilities. creative vision, it must point the way This new kind of seeing is integral to toward possible futures. Because '!Where there is no vision, the people perish." the evolutionary process and essential (Proverbs, 29:18) to its continuation. Evolution, imper- sonal and amoral, produced a moral In the brief existence of psychoanalysis animal, man, for whom it does not and no image was or could be final and cannot care, as it cannot for itself, and right. Pressures to stay with the static to whom it gave no certainty of per- express fears of

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The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Sep 1, 1966

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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