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Psychoanalyse en postmodernisme: een onderzeeboot in het zwembad

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Abstract

Psychoanalysis and postmodernism. A submarine in a swimming pool - One hundred years ago, a one man expedition set out in a not quite watertight U-boat to explore the uncharted depths of the human soul. In the wake of captain Freud, many navigated their vessels to the same and adjacent waters. However, whoever looks out of a port-hole today will see that the beautiful wild ocean of yesteryear, now looks more like a swimming pool, and that the submarine named Berggasse 19 has now run aground. Why should this be so ? In Freud’s time, psychoanalysis sailed under a flag that carried two claims : the claim to scientific status and the claim to a normative standard. Psychoanalysis fared well in this. But now it has reached different waters and no longer feels the need to fire its torpedoes at the fleet belonging to the established scientific community. Psychoanalysis has come to see those claims as superfluous ballast, and has consequently thrown both of them overboard. Although, by doing this, psychoanalysis succeeded in surfacing, it severely limited its range. This article attempts to investigate how these claims got lost in the past few decades, and it offers a perspective for regaining them.

How to Cite:

Maier, R. & Bos, J., (1993) “Psychoanalyse en postmodernisme: een onderzeeboot in het zwembad”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen 38(3), 323–337. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95147