A New Language for Psychoanalysis

by Roy Schafer

Book Overview

In this provocative and brilliant book, Roy Schafer offers a radical reconceptualization of Freudian metapsychology. When Freud wrote about his discoveries of the unconscious and the nature of psychic processes, he used the language of the prevailing scientific theories of his time--energy, force, and mechanism. In contrast, Schafer sees psychoanalysis as an interpretive discipline, a human science that requires a language of its own, unencumbered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300027613
• ISBN13: 9780300027617
• Release Date: September 1981
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.8"