Conservative and Radical Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Knowledge

In Conservative and Radical Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Knowledge: The Fascinated and the Disenchanted, -psychoanalyst and philosopher Aner Govrin demonstrates that the vitality and robustness of psychoanalytic theory has been maintained, on the one hand by emotional elements such as loyalty and fascination and, on the other hand, by rational criticism and doubt.

Aner Govrin, PhD., is a clinical psychologist and the Director of the doctoral program Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics, The Program For Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, Bar Ilan University, Israel. He is in private practice as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in Tel Aviv. He is the author of two books and various papers on psychoanalysis.