The Psychoanalysis of the Absurd

"""Over the past decade Mark Leffert has been on a creative journey resulting in this, his sixth volume, extending the contact, confrontation and integration of psychoanalysis with developments in a multitude of interdisciplinary domains. He is confronting us with findings in fields ranging from neuroscience, to chaos and complexity theories, to post-modern studies and in this book to Existentialism and Phenomenology to enrich psychoanalysis in both theoretical and clinical understanding of the human mind and condition. In his hands, psychoanalysis is getting solidly ensconced in the intellectual, scientific and cultural climate of the 21st Century. He is willing to seek outside the usual boxes of psychoanalytic discourse. We should go there with him."" - Erik Gann, M.D., Past President of the San Fransisco Center for Psychoanalysis and Chair of the Psychoanalytic Scholarship Forum of the American Psychoanalytic Association. ""Leffert has an open, questioning mind, a keen sense of history, an original fresh stance to the clinical enterprise of psychoanalysis, and a clear and charming way of making his existential point. This book is a must read for all mental health clinicians. "" -Peter Loewenberg is a Professor Emeritus of Modern European History and Political Psychology at UCLA, a Training and Supervising Analyst and former Dean of the New Center of Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. Currently he teaches Psychoanalysis and Culture in China. ""Over the past decade Mark Leffert has been on a creative journey resulting in this, his sixth volume, extending the contact, confrontation and integration of psychoanalysis with developments in a multitude of interdisciplinary domains. He is confronting us with findings in fields ranging from neuroscience, to chaos and complexity theories, to post-modern studies and in this book to Existentialism and Phenomenology to enrich psychoanalysis in both theoretical and clinical understanding of the human mind and condition. In his hands, psychoanalysis is getting solidly ensconced in the intellectual, scientific and cultural climate of the 21st Century. He is willing to seek outside the usual boxes of psychoanalytic discourse. We should go there with him."" Erik Gann, M.D., Past President of the San Fransisco Center for Psychoanalysis and Chair of the Psychoanalytic Scholarship Forum of the American Psychoanalytic Association. ""Leffert has an open, questioning mind, a keen sense of history, an original fresh stance to the clinical enterprise of psychoanalysis, and a clear and charming way of making his existential point. This book is a must read for all mental health clinicians. "" Peter Loewenberg is a Professor Emeritus of Modern European History and Political Psychology at UCLA, a Training and Supervising Analyst and former Dean of the New Center of Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. Currently he teaches Psychoanalysis and Culture in China."