num_pages: 224
description: This is an important work, both for the psychology of personality and for psychoanalytic theory. The authors establish a broad, 'decentered' perspective . . . whose purpose is to integrate various theories of personality by acknowledging their inevitable subjectivity, and then using that subjectivity to demarcate the limits of each theory. They provide fascinating psychobiographical case studies of Freud, Jung, Reich, and Rank, in which they demonstrate the relation between the internal world of each author and the major preoccupations and motivational principles of each theory. They convincingly argue that the broad metapsychological abstractions in each theory are defensive or reparative reifications of the internal psychodynamics of each theorist. This book raises important issues and questions for readers at all levels. (Stephen A. Mitchell, Ph.D. Library Journal)
language: English
title: Faces in a Cloud: Intersubjectivity in Personality Theory
titlecomplete: Faces in a Cloud: Intersubjectivity in Personality Theory
genres: Psychoanalysis, Psychology
ratings_count: 45
publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.