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Original Articles

The End of Comparative Psychoanalysis? Blurring the Boundaries Between Contemporary Theories

, Ed.D.
Pages 325-339 | Published online: 02 Sep 2016
 

Abstract

This article suggests that late 20th and early 21st century research in several academic disciplines is slowly eroding many of the distinctions that once divided contemporary psychoanalytic theorists, such as interpersonal and relational analysts, intersubjective-systems theorists, and self psychologists. The research points to complexity, unpredictability, and randomness in human minds and relationships—now seen by many analysts as nonlinear dynamic systems. The article outlines a few of the historically more divisive concepts and selectively reviews recent research findings that tend to bring the earlier competing theories more closely into alignment.

Translations of Abstract

Cet article se penche sur le fait qu’au tournant du vingt-et-unième siècle la recherche dans plusieurs disciplines a progressivement estompé un certain nombre de distinctions qui autrefois opposaient, au sein de la psychanalytise contemporaine, les analystes relationnels, les théoriciens des systèmes intersubjectifs et les psychologues du soi. On note une convergence vers la complexité, l’imprévisibilité et le hasard dans les relations humaines et l’esprit humain que l’ensemble des théoriciens perçoivent aujoud’hui comme des systèmes dynamiques non linéaires. Quelques concepts historiquement diviseurs sont énumérés et sont passées en revue de récentes études qui tendent à rapprocher des théories rivales.

Nell’ articolo si sostiene cge la ricerca degli ultimi.anni del ventesimo secolo  e dei primi del ventunesimo in molte discipline accademiche abbia lentamente eroso molte delle distinzioni che una volta dividevano i teorici della psicoanalisi contemporanea come gli analisti interpersonali e relazionali, i teorici dei sistemi intersoggettivi e gli psicologi del se’. La ricerca evidenzia la complessità, causalità  e non prevedibilità nelle menti e nelle relazioni umane viste oggi da molti analisti come sistemi dinamici non lineari.  L’articolo identifica alcuni dei concetti più divisivi e  fa una rassegna selettiva dei più recenti risultati della ricerca che tendono a riallineare e avvicinare teorie precedentemente contrapposte.

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