Subject relations
Subtitle: Unconscious experience and relational psychoanalysis
By: Naomi G. Rucker, Karen L. Lombardi.
Contributors: Lombardi, Karen L., 1945-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Psychoanalysis.
Description: A revolution is occurring across the intellectual landscape: linear, causational models are yielding to models that stress relativism and interactionism. In Subject Relations, this paradigm shift is applied to psychoanalysis. Traditional psychoanalysis views relationships as forged through individual drives - a satisfaction and fulfillment of needs and desires.

Rucker and Lombardi contend, however, that all relationships cannot be explained so simply; rather, they argue that human relationships carry meanings which cannot be reduced solely to the psychic contributions of each of the individuals involved. Instead, Subject Relations discusses the existence of a related unconscious rooted in mutual subjective experience.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-177) and indexes.