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AR: that you refer too. Obviously you do draw increasingly on things from
neuroscience in terms of an affinity to support your thinking.
DB: Hmm. Yes I see the future of psychoanalysis as requiring more and more a
dialogue with adjacent disciplines, neuroscience, philosophy, religion, I think all these
things need to come in and influence us and hopefully us to make a contribution to
them (voice drops) as well.
AR: Right, so it is important for you that it is a two-way contribution, both
psychoanalysis has something to contribute and these other disciplines have got
helpful insightful things to say to psychoanalysis.
DB: I think so, yes, I think that they can kind of stabilise things that we see, uhm I
mean I think a lot of the work being done on memory at the moment by
neuroscientists is very illuminating (said with emphasis) to psychoanalysis as we are
working continually with the idea that early experiences somehow imprinted onto the
individual in a way that then influences him later on and we can now see from
neuroscience much more detail of how that actually happens.
AR: Moving onto another question David. Uhm I have read as much of your work as I
can which is, you’ve produced more and more, a lot once you start tracking it down,
bits and pieces, going back to the articles in the dictionary of pastoral care uhm edited
by Alistair Campbell all those years ago. That, it is the same David Black I’m talking
to
DB: Actually it is, yes (laugh)
AR: Well you wrote articles on ambivalence, and 5 or 6 short…
DB: I had forgotten about those to be truthful, but I remember I did it (soft voice,
apologetic?)
AR: And then, did you write a history of the Westminster Pastoral Foundation, was
that published in Contact or?
DB: Yes, that was published by the Sheldon Press.
AR: So I’ve come across that some time ago, not recently but then obviously some of
your reviews and it seems to me that your writing developed very much from the
1990s, 1993 uhm about in the article on an object relations perspective on religion and
then the other thing that was also very interesting was the article in Stein’s book, the
chapter in Stein’s book, Beyond Faith.
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