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overlooked in a thematic analysis but silence about Jung is informative and to ignore him
would be to continue his historic disenfranchisement from the psychoanalytic
community. 419
Theme 3: Contemporary psychoanalysis 420
The term ‘contemporary psychoanalysis’ has different meanings. In the UK it is the impact
of contemporary Freudian, post-Kleinian and Object Relations theorists/practitioners held
within a traditional theoretical context enshrined in the British Psychoanalytical Soc
In the USA contemporary psychoanalysis recalls psychoanalytic pioneers who left
iety. 421
traditional psychoanalytic training societies to establish a different theoretical understanding
of psychoanalysis 422 and has grown into an eclectic identity distinct from classic
psychoanalysis. Phillips had little sense that it meant anything, and AN was ‘rather
suspicious
of the term’ (AN 34); however the interviewees identified four features.
Evolution not revolution
Contemporary psychoanalysis is a way of being rooted historically in Freud but adapting
theoretical and clinical developments unique to each analyst. Part of this evolution
is a
desire to engage with other developments, the most cited being postmodernism,
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An example of Jungian engagement with spirituality can be found in Corbett (Corbett 2007). Jung’s
influence has had some impact allied to Daoism and postmodernism as a context where Buddhist ideas have
been more fully appreciated in relation to psychoanalysis.
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Contemporary psychoanalysis – 41 references.
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As this is the only analytic institute in the UK recognized by the IPA, it has exerted a dominant control over
psychoanalysis here.
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Clara Thompson, Harry Stack Sullivan, Erich Fromm and others formed the William Alanson White
Institute in 1946 advocating psychoanalytic engagement with wider humanitarian, political and social contexts.
In 1964 the journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis was founded as a forum for interpersonal and alternative
expressions of psychoanalysis.
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