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Therapeutic Action : an Earnest Plea for Irony by Jonathan Lear is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"Therapeutic Action is many things: a passionate philosophical communication from one practicing analyst to other members of the psychoanalytic community; a commentary on the under-appreciated contribution of the psychoanalyst (and former student of Heidegger) Hans Loewald, and a profound yet succinct and non-technical discussion of the most important philosophical issues associated with psychoanalysis....The book is distinctive and original, and Jonathan Lear fuses its several dimensions into a whole that is more than the sum of its parts with prose that is effortless, humorous, and consistently engaging."<br> --Sebastian Gardner, Professor of Philosophy, University College London <p>"Jonathan Lear's <i>Therapeutic Action</i> vindicates its Oscar Wildean subtitle--<i>An Earnest Plea for Irony</i>--by giving us a Kierkegaardian reading, not so much of Hans Loewald, but of the transferences between Loewald and Lear. Just as the surviving traces of Plato in Freud were to identify reality-testing with a cognition freed of its sexual past, even so Lear attempts his own version of Kierkegaard's "The Case of the Contemporary Disciple." Lear is Plato to Loewald's Socrates, which is an aud
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jonathan Lear
- Publisher
- Karnac Books
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781590510773
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Psychology Theory, History & Research, Social_sciences
- Rating
- 3.56 / 5 (8 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13