Abstract

LOPARIC, Zeljko. The Winnicottian paradigm and the future of psychoanalysis. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2008, vol.42, n.1, pp.137-150. ISSN 0486-641X.

After displaying the present challenges which psychoanalysis is faced with, this paper analyses the responses to such challenges that have or could have been utilized by psychoanalysts. Having made a conservative response exhibit which consists in defending Freud’s metapsychology and the assimilative one, which includes psychoanalysis in the cognitive sciences’ confederation and in the acceptance of cognitivist metapsychology, the text presents the response to the paradigmatic change contained in Winnicott’s work.

Keywords : Neurosciences; Cognitivism; Metapsychology; Paradigm; Winnicott.

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