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The Last Resistance: The Concept of Science As a Defense by Marcus Bowman

By Marcus Bowman

A fundamentaly new exam of the controversies raging round psychoanalysis.

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And the more that we feel unsure of the support of others, the more we turn unconsciously to self-punitive patterns of behavior in an irrational attempt to secure that support. Perhaps nothing characterizes the present era more than the combination of an unprecedented lack of consensus over values and an unprecedented degree of unconsciously self-punitive behavior on the part of the confused individual conscience. Those who want to 28 The Last Resistance return to a consensus definition of cure are reflecting this stress, but their solution to it is premature and untenable.

This conceptual division is obviously very inhibiting of the possibility of a science of the mind. ”8 It is said sometimes that Kant’s problem is how to justify moral rules in a world apparently governed by Newtonian laws. On the surface, this is the problem to be solved. But the more fundamental psychological problem for Kant is to persuade us, or to persuade himself, that the world actually is governed by Newtonian laws. In the first instance, he has to show that a properly scientific view of the world can be only a Newtonian view.

The roots of this misconception go back to Freud’s early work, especially Studies On Hysteria in 1895 where, in part, he too thinks of defense in these mistaken terms. In 1896, in his famous paper “The Aetiology of Hysteria,” he momentarily abandons the theory of defense altogether in favor of a theory of forgotten memories. In this guise, however, the problem ceases to be about how the self defends itself against itself, and becomes instead the problem of how the self defends itself against what happened to it in the past.

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