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7Essays in existential psychoanalysis: on the primary of authenticityRoutledge. 2023.In this brilliant and revolutionary collection of fourteen major essays that draw from more than twenty-five years of painstaking research, M. Guy Thompson regales us with a stunning revisioning of conventional psychoanalysis that deepens our understanding of the human condition. Integrating the most seminal existentialist philosophers, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre, with the most forward thinking psychoanalysts over the past century, including Freud, Laing, Bion, Winnicott, and Lac…Read more
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5The Death of Desire: An Existential Study in Sanity and MadnessRoutledge. 2016.A stunning exploration of the relation between desire and psychopathology, The Death of Desireis a unique synthesis of the work of Laing, Freud, Nietzsche, and Heidegger that renders their often difficult concepts brilliantly accessible to and usable by psychotherapists of all persuasions. In bridging a critical gap between phenomenology and psychoanalysis, M. Guy Thompson, one of the leading existential psychoanalysts of our time, firmly re-situates the unconscious - what Freud called "the lost…Read more
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Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Modern Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Study of Sartre, Binswanger, Lacan, and Habermas by Roger FrieJournal of Phenomenological Psychology 29 (1): 135-139. 1998.
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1360The primacy of experience in R.d. Laing's approach to psychoanalysisIn Roger Frie (ed.), Understanding Experience: Psychotherapy and Postmodernism, Routledge. 2003.This paper explores R. D. Laing's application of existential and phenomenological tradtions, specifically Hegel and Heidegger, to his groundbreaking work with psychotic process as well as psychotherapeutic practice more generally.
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31Postmodernism and psychoanalysis: A Heideggerian critique of postmodernist malaise and the question of authenticityIn Joseph Reppen, Jane Tucker & Martin A. Schulman (eds.), Way Beyond Freud: Postmodern Psychoanalysis Observed, Open Gate Press. pp. 173--202. 2004.
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26Therapeutic Action: An Earnest Plea for IronyJournal of Phenomenological Psychology 39 (1): 126-139. 2008.Book review of Jonathan Lear's study of Hans Loewald's views about the nature of therapeutic action in psychoanalysis.
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32Apprehending the inaccessible: Freudian psychoanalysis and existential phenomenologyJournal of Phenomenological Psychology 38 (1): 136-150. 2007.
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7The Truth about Freud's Technique: The Encounter with the RealNYU Press. 1994.In this unusual and much-needed reappraisal of Freud's clinical technique, M. Guy Thompson challenges the conventional notion that psychoanalysis promotes relief from suffering and replaces it with a more radical assertion, that psychoanalysis seeks to mend our relationship with the real that has been fractured by our avoidance of the same. Thompson suggests that, while avoiding reality may help to relieve our experience of suffering, this short-term solution inevitably leads to a split in our e…Read more
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Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology: Toward a Human Synthesis, by Miguel IturrateJournal of Phenomenological Psychology 26 114-116. 1995.
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21Rarely do we come across a book that has the force and cogency to provoke us to reevaluate the most fundamental tenets of psychoanalysis. One of the most brilliant psychoanalytic scholars of our time, M. Guy Thompson revolutionizes our understanding of the axiomatic principles upon which psychoanalysis is based. Through a careful exegesis of Freud's texts, he persuasively shows how the fundamental rule of psychoanalysis is not merely a vehicle for free association but, more importantly, a pledge…Read more
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82Is the unconscious really all that unconscious? The role of being and experience in the psychoanalytic encounterContemporary Psychoanalysis 37 (4): 571-612. 2001.This paper explores the psychoanalytic conception of the unconscious and critiques it from a phenomenlogical perspective, especially Sartre and Heidegger, with a view to conceptualizing the unconscious from an ontological rather than psychological mindset.
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Pragmatic-Existential Psychotherapy by Herbert M. PotashJournal of Phenomenological Psychology 26 114-116. 1995.
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2The Personal Dimension to OntologyPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 22 (2): 125-127. 2015.Hersch’s objective in his paper was to “illustrate how an existential ontology has a great deal to offer psychotherapists”. The first of three sections addresses existential themes such as guilt and anxiety and explores the notion of bad faith; the second focuses on why existential ontology provides a more suitable grounding for psychotherapy than traditional models; and the third offers the author’s invention of a mental status examination that is derived from existential ontology. To illustrat…Read more
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83Is the unconscious really all that unconscious?In Paul Gordon & Rosalind Mayo (eds.), Between Psychotherapy and Philosophy: Essays From the Philadelphia Association, . pp. 141-178. 2004.This paper explores the psychoanalytic conception of the unconscious and critiques it from a phenomenlogical perspective, especially Sartre and Heidegger, with a view to conceptualizing the unconscious from an ontological rather than psychological mindset.
Areas of Specialization
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |