Emotions, Interpretation and the Psychoanalytic Countertransference
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The paper explores, within the framework of philosophy of psychoanalysis, a question about the epistemology and methodology of participant experience in anthropology: whether the emotional experience of the fieldworker can provide a ‘legitimate means for knowing’. There is a recognised parallel here with the situation of the psychoanalyst vis à vis her patient; both analyst and anthropologist may be described as engaged in ‘the struggle to know the other’. Alongside questions about the epistemological status of psychoanalytic theory, it is often asked whether psychoanalysis provides particular knowledge of the state of mind and mental functioning of the analysand.
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