Roger Frie is on the adjunct faculty of the New School for Social Research, and is a clinic fellow at the William Alanson White Institute of Psyciatry, Psychoanalis and Psychology.
Roger Frie's important new study makes vital links between
psychoanalytical, phenomenological, and other philosophical
approaches to questions of subjectivity and intersubjectivity, as
well as bringing the neglected figure of Ludwig Binswanger into
contemporary debate. Frie argues impressively against many current
orthodoxies, showing that theories, like those of Lacan or
Habermas, in which subjectivity is understood in purely linguistic
terms, fail to account for some of the most central aspects of
self-conscious life.
*Andrew Bowie, Professor of Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University
of London*
Frie's book is wonderful because it brings into the American
psychoanalytic dialogue voices— Binswanger's, for example — that
are new to most of us, voices that call into question many current
fashionable ways of thinking. Our conversation can now become much
richer....
*Psychoanalytic Books*
I highly recommend this engrossing study of a most relevant and
contemporary topic. It is rich in content, thoughtful in its
execution, and extremly useful for anyone interested in gaining new
insights into contemporary debate between the proponents of
subjectivty in psychoanalysis.
*Journal Of Plenomeical Psycology*
This is a highly informative and thought-provoking book that we
recommend to psychoanalysts for its lucid exposition of the
concerns of important twentieth-century European philosophers
unsatisfied with materialist concepts of mind popular in
Anglo-American circles. The book's greatest virtue is the way it
draws the reader into conversation with difficult thinkers about
fundamental questions that psychoanalytic discourse often leaves
aside and that many psychoanalysts feel are too intimidating even
to consider.
*Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association*
If there is one work any philosophically inclined analyst should
read this year, Frie's excellent scholarly book is it ...
Intersubjectivity is something of a new wave in psychoanalysis. An
old idea, it has come along through the German idealist tradition
to Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre. Postmodern theorists such as
Lacan, Foucault, Levinas, Habermas, Judith Butler, and Ian Hacking
want to use it to claim that human subjectivity is merely a social
construction. In my opinion, Roger Frie proves them wrong.
*Contemporary Psychoanalysis*
This book is a lucid and engaging study of a key issue in
contemporary thought, which usefully brings together both
philosophical and psychoanalytical perspectives. In particular, the
thoughtful discussions of the work of Ludwig Binswanger, which is
too often neglected in contemporary debates, help to throw new
light on the issues involved.
*Peter Dews, Professor of Philosophy, University of Essex*
Frie's book is wonderful because it brings into the American
psychoanalytic dialogue voices— Binswanger's, for example —
that
are new to most of us, voices that call into question many current
fashionable ways of thinking. Our conversation can now become much
richer.
*Psychoanalytic Books*
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