Therapeutic Action: An Earnest Plea For Irony

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Summary: Lear Takes On Postmodernism
Review: In this typically witty and delightful essay, Lear opens his mind to ironies of the psychoanalytic process, and in doing so finds reason to be suspicious of postmodern narratives of "intersubjectivity." This is a sort of return to Freud, or to more sympathetic readings of Freud, than we are used to these days. But Lear's take is postmodern, even if the postmodernists bug him, and this easy-to-read book will inspire new thoughts about old ideas across ideological spectrums.