Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis Quotes

“All of us regard our own theory as most balanced, because we each stand at the center of our own (conceptual) world, with the thoughts of others arranged around us, everyone else accounted for.”
― Stephen A. Mitchell, Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis

“The exploration and construction of a personal history with another person is a powerful, transformative intrapersonal experience. Without memory, there is no self. Meaning is personal experience composed into narratives. However, the narratives brought forth by the patient are generally stereotypes and closed. A central part of what the analyst adds is imagination, a facility with reorganizing and reframing, a capacity to envision different endings, and different futures. If the storylines suggested by the analyst himself are rigid and stereotypes, the analytic process degenerates into sterility and conversion.”
― Stephen A. Mitchell, Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis

“Knowledge in our day is considered pluralistic, not singular; contextual, not absolute; constructed, not uncovered; challenging and dynamic, not static and eternal.”
― Stephen A. Mitchell, Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis

“The development of subjectivity is inextricably bound up with the appreciation of the subjectivity of others”
― Stephen A. Mitchell, Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis

“Only a couple of decades ago it was easy to contrast the religious worldview, bracing and enshrining the mysterious and the unknown, with the scientific worldview, illuminating dark.”
― Stephen A. Mitchell, Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis