ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1976
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

spoljašnjost vidljiva, unutra dobra, dobro stanje
For some years before his premature death in 1971, George Klein was deeply immersed in the writing of this book, but it remaind for his friends and colleagues to `finish` it. That is not to say that every chapter in this volume is not written by him--every word is his--but merely that, had he lived, he would likely have added more. PArt I concerns the dilemmas and options confronting psychoanaltyic theory in a variety of contexts. Part II is devoted to a critical reappraisal of psychoanalytic theory, an attempt to restate what he called `the clinical theory of personal encounter.` Klein takes the position that metapsychology and psychology are in two different universes of discourse and that, important though metapsychology is for a comprehensive science ofman , it has no relevance for -- indeed it obstructs -- the study of psychoanalytic data. Inasmuch as this position is a sharp departure from the widely held view that a natural-science thoery is inrinsic to psychoanalytic psychology, Klein faced the double task of disentangling the intertwining of metapsychology and psychoology and of systematizing the findigns of psychoanalysis by means of a psychological theory that could replace metapsychology . The result is a critical, yet constructive reappraisal of psychoanlaytic theory. George Klein`s training as an experimental academic psychologist and as a psychoanalyst did not lead him, as is usually the case in itneridsicplinary approaches, to a synthesis of the two disciplines. He was moved to folow his findings rather than his preconceptions, and to conclude that a disengagement rather than a synthesis was required. Doubtless, this exciting book will be the subject of much controversy for many a year.`From the Editor`s Preface: `When George S. Klein died unexpectedly on April 11, 1971, at the age of 53, he was deeply immersed in writing this book. The manuscript had occupied him for several years, the summer of 1967 being perhaps the initial and most concentrated work period, during which time he prepared the first drafts of Part II. That Klein was working on a critical reappraisal of psychoanalytic theory was known to his many friends, colleagues, and students; he had already presented and published his ideas concerning the ` dielmmas and options` confronting psychoanalytic thoery in a variety of contexts. It is some of htese already pbulished statements which constitute, as he had planned it, PArt I off this book. But we eagerly awaited his proposed solutions, his `restatement` of the theory (that is, the contents of PArt II of this book). With his sudden eath there was, intermingled with our profound grief and deep sense of loss, a growign concern about the fate of George`s mansucript , the product of so many years of arduous labor. Was it sufficiently `ready` to allow its publication? Obviously Klein`s own severe judgement would have been `No`: the manuscript would need much more work before it was ready. Those who knew George`s demanding work habits and his incessant rewrites, draft after draft, would surely have urged him to emper his perfectoinism for the sake of publication, though they would in all likelihood have been unsuccessful in swaying his judgement . Nevertheless, his friends and colleagues, after reading the most recent drafts of his manuscript and consultation with others, beleived that it was worthy of publicatoin even in its unfinished state.