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    The utility of hermeneutic interpretation in psychotherapy
    Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 12 (2): 103-118. 1992.
    Examines how a hermeneutic psychotherapy might be possible by adapting interpretive theory arising in the human sciences and in response to the critiques that continue to question hermeneutics proper. Based on the work of several noted researchers, including M. Foucault , M. Merleau-Ponty , and H. Dreyfus and P. Rabinow , such topics as the relationship of psychoanalysis and phenomenology, the distinction of hermeneutics and interpretive analytics, hermeneutics and the deep self, and hermeneutic…Read more
  • Critique of the Foundations of Psychology, by G. Politzer
    Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 27 (1): 104-107. 1996.
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    The Echo Phase
    Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 24 (1): 17-45. 1993.
    This article focuses on the significance of acoustical phenomena in the development of the subjectivity of the infant. An attribute of that development, beginning with the breakdown of psychological symbiosis for the infant, is the loss implicit in the eventual participation of the subject in a symbolic order and the consequent acquisition of language. The essay examines how such loss can contribute to the constitution of the subject and the ego of the subject. Two aspects of language, metaphor …Read more
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    The theory of neuronal group selection and its implications for psychology: A critique of the biological self
    Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 15 (1): 41-57. 1994.
    Critiques G. Edelman's Theory of Neuronal Group Selection , from the perspectives of social constructionism, contemporary theory of metaphor, and existential-phenomenological psychology. This theory provides a contemporary biological view of consciousness and the self. Edelman's notion of consciousness as purely biological, and his attempt to ground intentionality in the body, are reductionistic. It is suggested that phenomenological descriptions must be taken into the center of the problem of c…Read more
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    Utopia/Dystopia/Atopia: A Dissertation on Psychopathology and Utopian Thinking
    Dissertation, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center. 1990.
    This study concerns the influence which utopian literature and thought have had on the epistemology of modern psychology. If we assume that human intentionality, as a projection of constitutive formal and informal structures, gives shape, order and coherence to human life, the relation of intention and human action is an important topic for psychology, as it is for any human science. But social science itself is subject to human intentionality. This intentionality, shaped by historical practices…Read more
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    The phenomenological perspective described by M. Merleau-Ponty seems to be emerging in the context of contemporary developmental research, theories of communication, metaphor theory, and cognitive neuroscience. This emergence is not always accompanied by reference to Merleau-Ponty, however, or appropriate interpretation. On some cases, the emergence of the perspective seems rather inadvertent. The purpose of this essay is to ferret out some of the points which contemporary thinking has in common…Read more