What the analysis of empathy in the Fifth Cartesian Meditation reveals for psychotherapy - Vol 1 & 2

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Title
What the analysis of empathy in the Fifth Cartesian Meditation reveals for psychotherapy - Vol 1 & 2
Creator
Ian Rory Owen
Supervisor
433444
Date
2003
Abstract
The thesis agrees that there can be interpreted within conscious life, the influence of the past. The past can influence the intersubjective style of an ego, a person in some of their relations with others. But Freud held an unclear position on how to interpret 'unconscious intentionality'. He preferred theory about senses that never appear and natural scientific science. It is argued that concepts such as transference, countertransference and unconscious communication should be contextualised within intersubjectivity in the strong sense of a potential manifold of interpretable perspectives on any single cultural object. The answer is to show that Freud's key ideas are situated within metaphysical commitments to natural science and material cause overall in an unclear relation to conscious psychological life. Husserl's apriori analysis of intersubjectivity is argued to explain any psychological event .in relation to the past and the current therapeutic situation. Consequently, Freud's key ideas need to be abandoned in preference for a rationalisation about meaning, empathy and intersubjectivity as more adequate explanations of the conditions for the psychological meaningfulness of any psychological cultural object.
Subject
Psychotherapy and Counselling
Extent
293 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Format
pdf
Publisher
Regent's University London
degree
PhD in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Description
KOHA.biblionumber:17092 Awarding Body: City University.
Language
English
Date Issued
2003
Type
Thesis & Dissertation
Rights Holder
Regent's University London & Ian Rory Owen
Item sets
Theses or Dissertation