Article ID: CBB008113005

The Function of Metapsychology – Study of an American Controversy, 1970s–1980s (2021)

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This article explores the controversies triggered by Freud's metapsychology, specifically the American critiques of the 1970s – Heinz Hartmann, Merton Gill and David Rapaport, Robert Waelder, and Lawrence Kubie for ego-psychology, leading into Roy Schafer, George Klein and again Merton Gill for hermeneutics, Emmanuel Peterfreund and Charles Brenner for positivism, before concluding with a summary of more inventive engagements with metapsychology including that of Joseph Sandler and André Green. The article argues that in the name of empirical or clinical evidence, the American critiques tried to reintroduce a subjectivity made of data into the heart of psychoanalytic theory and as a result, replaced the subject of the unconscious with a new figure of the subject not only transparent to itself, but also transparent to two main forms of discourse: the hermeneutic discourse, on the one hand, and the positivist discourse, on the other.

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Authors & Contributors
Allen Frances
Herzog, Dagmar
Matza, Tomas
John J. Stuhr
Gephart, Emily Willard
Wexler, Alice
Concepts
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Controversies and disputes
Empiricism
Science and culture
Philosophy and politics
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Russia
Germany
Europe
Chile
Great Britain
Institutions
Clark University
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