Download or read book The Idea of the Past written by Leonard J. Lamm and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lamm redraws the map of American psychoanalytic argument and takes a fresh look at current debates on narrative truth, metapsychology, and the role of the past in theory and therapy. Rejecting the exclusivist claims of scientific and hermeneutic psychoanalysis, he argues that the task is no longer to unify psychoanalysis into a homogeneous discourse, but rather to ascertain the conditions under which each mode of discourse--history, science, and practice--is applicable and appropriate. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR