The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy

Aner Govrin, Ph.D., is a philosopher, clinical psychologist, and psychoanalyst. He is the Director of the doctoral track "Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics" in the Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies program at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. In addition, he is a member of the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TAICP). Govrin is the editor of the Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series and the author of Ethics and Attachment: How We Make Moral Judgments (Routledge, 2015) and Conservative and Radical Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Knowledge: The Fascinated and the Disenchanted (Routledge, 2019). Tair Caspi, Ph.D. is a senior clinical psychologist, and lecturer in the doctoral program of Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics track, Bar-Ilan University. She is an associate editor of the Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series. Caspi is author of Metaphors in Psychoanalysis: Reflecting on the Language of Klein, Winnicott, and Ogden (Resling Publishing, 2020). Additionally, she has published several journal articles and book chapters on the intersection between psychoanalysis and the philosophy of language.

Introduction Part I - Philosophical Traditions and Psychoanalysis 1. Freud's Theory of Freedom: Between Kant's Faith and Schopenhauer's Pessimism 2. Hegel's Contributions to Psychoanalysis: Theory of Mind, Dialectics, and Projective Identification 3. Nietzsche, Psychoanalysis, Nihilism 4. Psychoanalysis Finds a Home: Emotional Phenomenology 5. Bridging Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Hermeneutic Pathway Between the Disciplines 6. Wittgenstein: Disciple of Freud? 7. Freud and the Legacy of Sensory Physiology 8. Trauma and Language Part II - Psychoanalytic Schools 9. Freud and the Unconscious 10. The Foundations of the Psychoanalytic Theories of Freud, Klein and Bion Compared 11. Fairbairn's 'Psychology of Dynamic Structure' and Philosophy 12. From Freud To Winnicott: Aspects of Paradigm Change 13. Kohut's Self Psychology, Ethics, and Modern Society 14. What Is Intersubjectivity: From Phenomenology to Psychoanalysis 15. Subject and Subjecthood: From Philosophy to Psychoanalysis 16. Is Jung a Philosopher of Religion as well as a Psychologist of Religion? Part III - Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Truth 17. The Anxieties of Truth in Psychoanalytic and Philosophic Thought 18. Truth and Psychoanalysis 19. Metaphors and the Question of Truth in Psychoanalytic Language 20. Facts and Sensibilities: What Is a Psychoanalytic Innovation? 21. Psychoanalytic Evidence: The Old and the New Part IV - Philosophical Debates 22. The Psychoanalytic das Ich: Lost in Translation 23. Subjectivity in Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience - From World-Brain Relation over Neuro-Ecological Self to the Point of View 24. Psychoanalysis, Self-Deception, and the Problem of Teleology 25. A-Rationality: The Views of Freud and Wittgenstein Explored 26. Intersubjectivity and Responsibility in Relational Psychoanalysis and Modern Jewish Philosophy 27. Ethics of Discontent Part V - Applied Subjects 28. What can Psychoanalysis Tell Us about Cyberspace? 29. Psychoanalysis, Race and Colonialism 30. Narcissism in Religion 31. The Missing Signifier and a Malfunctioning Paternal Law: On the Feminine Third as Vital Portal for Sexual Difference and Emancipatory Democracy 32. Ecopsychoanalysis and Climate Psychology 33. The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Thinking About Aesthetics