Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Authenticating
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Richard Ekins and Robert Porter examine how psychoanalytic traditions are constructed, contested, and sustained within the Basic Socio Political Process of Authenticity, the organizing principle of the book's theoretical movement. Drawing on grounded theory, symbolic interactionism, and decades of clinical, sociological, and archival work, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Authenticating follows the trajectory of authenticating from Freud's original constructions through the Freud–Klein controversies (1941-1945), the Controversial Discussions (1942-1944), and its long aftermath in the British Psychoanalytical Society. This argues that authenticity in psychoanalysis is best understood in terms of standpoint, especially the distinctions of being/becoming and center/periphery, tracing how these all shape the development of psychoanalytic ideas and institutions.
Part I offers a memoir based analytic autoethnography that provides the experiential ground from which the later analysis emerges. Part II develops a comparative substantive grounded theory of authenticity, examining how psychoanalytic knowledge is constructed, reconstructed, credentialed, adopted, applied, and adapted across historical and institutional contexts. Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Authenticating shows how different figures return to Freud's early foundations in divergent ways, illuminating the politics of “authentic” Freudianism and its possible futures. Combining methodological clarity with lived experience, it reframes psychoanalysis as a dynamic field whose traditions arise within authenticity struggles rather than from doctrinal unity.
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Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Prelude
A Methodological Introduction
Riff I Robert Porter
PART 1: MAINLY MEMOIR
Chapter 1 Memoir, Life History and Analytic Autoethnography-Freud, Psychoanalysis and Anarchism
Chapter 2 Freud, Jung, and Anti-Psychiatry
Riff II Robert Porter
Chapter 3 Prelude to Becoming Authentic
Chapter 4 Becoming Authentic (1984–1996)
Chapter 5 Remaining Authentic (1996–2006)
Riff III Robert Porter
PART 2: MAINLY THEORY
Chapter 6 The Move to Comparative Substantive Grounded Theory
Chapter 7 Constructing Authenticity
Chapter 8 Clarifying, Reviving and Restoring Authenticity
Chapter 9 Safeguarding Authenticity and the Move to the Authenticating/Credentializing Couple
Chapter 10 Reconstructing Authenticity: Melanie Klein and the Controversial Discussions (1941–1945)
Chapter 11 Adopting and Applying Authenticity: Thomas Freeman and the Psychoses
Chapter 12 Interlude: Centres and Peripheries and Freud, Freeman and Barratt on Sexuality
Chapter 13 Adapting Authenticity: Thomas Freeman and the Credentializing of Psychoanalysis in Northern Ireland
Riff IV Robert Porter
Finale
A Note on Preliminary Archival Materials for the Thomas Freeman Project
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About the Authors
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| Published | 13 May 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781978764484 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 0 |
| Series | Experiments/On the Political |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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