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Despite the importance of the concept of hope in human affairs, psychoanalysts have long had difficulty accepting responsibility for the manner in which their various interpretive orientations and explanations of therapeutic action express their own hopes for their patients. In Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis, Steven Cooper remedies this longstanding lacuna in the literature, and, in the process, provides a thorough comparative analysis of contemporary psychoanalytic models with respect to issues of hope and hopefulness.
Cooper's task is challenging, given that the most hopeful aspects of human growth frequently entail acceptance of the destructive elements of our inner lives. The analysis of hope, then, implicates what Cooper sees as a central dialectic tension in psychoanalysis: that between psychic possibility and psychic limit. He argues that analysts have historically had difficulty integrating the concept of limit into a treatment modality so dedicated to the creation and augmentation of psychic possibility. And yet, it is only by accepting the realm of limit as a necessary counterpoise to the realm of possibility and clinically embracing the tension between the two realms that analysts can further their understanding of therapeutic process in the interest of better treatment outcomes.
Cooper persuasively demonstrates how each psychoanalytic theory provides its own logic of hope; this logic, in turn, translates into a distinctive sense of what the analyst may hope for the patient, and what the patient is encouraged to hope for himself or herself. Objects of Hope brings ranging scholarship and refreshing candor to bear on the knotty issue of what can and cannot be achieved in the course of psychoanalytic therapy. It will be valued not only as an exemplary exercise in comparative psychoanalysis, but also as a thoughtful, original effort to place the vital issue of hope at the center of clinical concern.
Contents
Introduction. Part I: The Conspiratorial Timeless Unconscious. Objects of Hope. The Conspiratorial Timeless Unconscious: A Comparative View of Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Limit. Part II: Intimacy and Solitude: A Comparative Perspective on Sources of Influence in American Relational Theory and British Object Relations Theory. Intimacy and Solitude. The Old and New Object in Fairbairnian and American Relational Theory. Elements of Mutual Containment in the Analytic Situation. Part III: The Shifting Surface: A Comparative Perspective on Sources of Influence in American Relational Theory and Ego Psychology. Regression and the Old/New Object Continuum: Molly and the Problem of "Anti-Regression" and Progression. In Loewald's Shadow: Interpretation and the Psychic Future. Countertransference Expressiveness and the American Relational and American Ego Psychology Models: A Clinical Comparative Perspective. The Analyst's Construction of Psychic Possibility. Psychoanalytic Theory as a Logic of Hope.
