Description
Book SynopsisThis book draws psychoanalysis out of unsubstantiated, hermeneutic speculation and into the science and philosophy of the Self. Mark Leffert offers a survey of where we as human beings come from, going back into prehistory and our development as individuals. Psychoanalysis and the Birth of the Self is written to provide psychoanalysts with interdisciplinary information drawn from fields that they may have had little access to.
Leffert undertakes a novel integration of topics not frequently discussed together, resulting in a radical critique of the theorization of psychoanalysis. The book begins by setting the story with a short analysis of the history of psychoanalysis. A new science has been founded on the recognition of the impossibility of separating evolution from development; it is called Evo-Devo. Applied to the human condition, it integrates development with palaeoanthropology and forms the basis for exploring such topics as the neurophilosophy of conscio
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Psychoanalysis’s Yesterdays, Todays, and Tomorrows: A Brief History of Being With Patients
Chapter 2: The Neurophilosophy of Consciousness
Chapter 3: Psychoanalytic Theories of Development and the New Science of Evo-Devo
Chapter 4: The Origins of the Self and its Consciousness: The Evo-Devo of Human Being
Chapter 5: Being and Nothingness or To Be or Not to Be
Chapter 6: Common Ground
