PHILOSPSYCHE

As analysts and philosophers we have been developing theorizing and practices which, in our view, allow for "more nuanced, subtle, and complex ways of listening/responding…" (Ellis and O'Connor, 2010, p. xi). The theorizing of twentieth-century European philosophers such as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, and Butler, in relation to language, time, and embodiment, can expand our psychoanalytic understanding of conscious/unconscious experiences of our intersubjectivities. This has crucial ethical implications for our clinical practices as analysts... We are concerned with the specificity of individuals' descriptions of their subjectivities in the context of past, present, and future time. Our focus is on the uniqueness of individuals' lived conscious/unconscious experiences within their socio-historical contexts. We challenge dualistic interpretations of mind/body, thinking/feeling, imagination/reason and rigorously question the status of..