RHETOR 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Phantom Limb
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Debate about knowledge-production in sociology has pitted. Psycholoanalysis (pa) invokes the differentiation between research, diagnosis and treatment rhetorically, but refuses to differentiate its practice. Insist on setting of the couch and the p relationship as central to all aspects of knowledge production (cid:498)internalistic(cid:499) accounts (cid:523)places, practices, tools of knowledge(cid:524) against (cid:498)externalist(cid:499) accounts of institutions and fields. Argument: pa is peculiar because of its mismatch between its. Designed to produce placelessness/ contextlessness (takes patient out of. Insists on psychoanalytic setting: couch and pa relationship reality, knowledge produced is thought to be independent) Gestures toward diagnosis and treatment but does not develop these as distinct aspect of its practice. Argument: analysis helps explain problems pa has with its environment and explain the specific form taking by its internal divisions. One to one relationship between patient and analyst. Has been losing practical and organizational influence but remains central to the imagination of the talking cure in social scientific and broader cultural discussions.
