Between Emotion and Cognition

The Generative Unconscious

Joseph Newirth

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English

Other Press LLC
17 September 2005

Cognition & cognitive psychology; States of consciousness

Modern individuals often enter analysis because of a feeling of hollowness; a deadened absence of aliveness, meaninglessness, and a sense of being alone in a world that seems otherwise exciting, engaging and alive. Joseph Newirth believes that these feelings reflect a disease of modern man which can be traced to a failure in the development of subjectivity.

Through a careful reading of theory and well-reasoned presentations of case material, Newirth vividly evokes the contemporary dilemma of the individual's lack of subjectivity.

Newirth positions this lack of subjectivity as a failure in the development of the unconscious, an understanding that provides the foundation for the development of a two-person theory of the unconscious.

Newirth proposes a Neo-Kleinian model of the unconscious, the ""generative unconscious"" in contrast to the ""repressed unconscious"" of classical theory, or the ""relational unconscious"" of interpersonal and relational theory.

He defines the ""generative unconscious"" as a source of creativity, of apprehending and generating experience in terms of emotional meanings through the development of metaphors, transitional experiences and poetic images.

Newirth draws on a wealth of clinical material to support his argument that traditional forms of interpretation are considerably less effective in the development of subjectivity than his alternative Neo-Kleinian approach.

He contends that locating subjectivity in the unconscious frees us from the nineteenth century bias which privileged consciousness and rational thought, and suggests that the analytic enterprise is not to make the unconscious conscious, but rather to make the conscious unconscious.

By: Joseph Newirth
Imprint: Other Press LLC
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 371g
ISBN: 9781590512074
ISBN 10: 1590512073
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 17 September 2005
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joseph Newirth, Ph.D Joseph Newirth, Ph.D., has been a psychologist, psychoanalyst, teacher, and supervisor of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy for over 25 years. He is currently the Director of the Postdoctoral Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at Adelphi University and a Supervisor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University. He lives in Garden City, New York.

Reviews for Between Emotion and Cognition: The Generative Unconscious

"""A splendid tour of the most important ideas that shape today's psychoanalytic conversation."" - Jay Greenberg, Ph.D., William Alanson White Institute"""