Ever since its nascent days, psychoanalysis has enjoyed an uneasy coexistence with religion. However, in recent decades, many analysts have been more interested in the healing potential of both psychoanalytic and religious experience and have explored how their respective narrative underpinnings may be remarkably similar. In Toward Mutual Recognition, Marie T. Hoffman takes just such an approach.
Key Features
- Explores the influence of Christian narratives on psychoanalysis.
- Develops the 'path of recognition' through concepts of identification, surrender, and gratitude.
- In-depth attention to theoretical perspectives from thinkers like Benjamin, Hegel, and Ricoeur.
- Includes historical perspectives on analysts influenced by Christian narratives.
- Presents a compelling extended case history of Mandy, illustrating the steps along the path of growth.
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Coming from a Christian perspective, she suggests that the current relational turn in psychoanalysis has been influenced by numerous theorists - analysts and philosophers alike - who were themselves shaped by an embedded Christian narrative. As a result, the redemptive concepts of incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection - central to the tenets of Christianity - can be traced to relational theories, emerging analogously in the transformative process of mutual recognition. Throughout, a relational sensibility is deployed as a cooperative counterpart to the Christian narrative, working both as a consilient dialogue and a vehicle for further integrative exploration.
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