By Matthias Bormuth
The German model of this e-book acquired the most award in 2001 of the distinguished Stehr-Boldt-Fonds of the college of Zürich for clinical learn combining questions of scientific ethics with social curiosity.
This award-winning ebook investigates the critique of psychoanalysis formulated by way of the psychiatrist and thinker Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) over a interval of 5 many years. His arguments opposed to Freud and his fans are tested from systematic views. The learn lines the medico-historical roots of Jasper’s feedback of psychoanalysis after which areas it in the framework of medical concept ahead of devoting itself widely to medico-ethical facets of the talk, that are finally taken care of by way of a heritage of mentalities. in accordance with this view, Jasper’s pupil Hannah Arendt observed to it that the thinker be made conscious of the socio-cultural effect which psychoanalysis was once commencing to have within the U.S.A. The thinker got here to appear upon psychoanalysis as a idea – specifically because it used to be propagated after 1945 in Germany and the U.S. – whose declare to clinical objectivity constituted a significant hazard to the liberty of the person. Max Weber’s thought of technology and his proposal of modernity function a severe consultant for the translation. therefore the normative premise of the research is the liberal concept that in a mundane and pluralistic society it's finally the person who's to take accountability for all times behavior.
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PRACTICAL CRITIQUE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE YEARS 1913-1920 As concerned methods of treatment, Jaspers did not follow Freud’s lead after his Studies on Hysteria any more either. In 1906 Freud expressly revoked his concept on how hysteria resulted and was to be treated, a concept mainly associated with the 160 AP 2, pg. 293. AP 2, pg. 293. Jaspers studied law in Munich in the summer of 1902, moved in literary circles in Schwabing and took private graphological instruction from Ludwig Klages. Max Weber, who cultivated relationships to members of Schwabing’s bohéme during these years which were mediated by Otto Gross and Else Jaffé-Richthofen, will have told Jaspers about this colony of artists as well.
294. 130 Cf. Freud (1895), Freud (1910) and Freud (1917). 131 Cf. Freud (1900). 22 CHAPTER 2 These works are to be found in Jaspers’ private library today. ”135 The fact that Jaspers valued the contemporaneous research on hysteria conducted by Pierre Janet over that of Freud’s is made clear by his copy of Freud’s Lectures, as he comments on the passage in which Freud writes disparagingly of Janet’s work136 quite critically: “Polemics! ” Jaspers’ remarks 132 The private library of Karl Jaspers is to be found all in one place in Basle, with Dr.
32. 198 Ph 2, pg. 243. 199 Ph 2, pg. 243. CHAPTER 2 32 of power which characterizes psychotherapeutic practice. He comes to the conclusion, affirmed by many medico-ethical studies, that the communicative relationship ship between physician and patient is a-symmetrical because due to his neediness, only the patient has the compulsion to speak of his personal emotional problems. According to Jaspers, what results is an imbalance of power. e. 200 At the time Jaspers formulated this critique, the figure of Jesus served as an example for this negative ideotype.