A Requiem for Hollow Men

Joseph Newirth's book Between Emotion and Cognition is, covertly, a major project. I write covertly not because the author attempts to deceive, rather Newirth very eloquently takes the reader through a history of psychoanalysis and epistemology, presents a model of the mind, and describes clinical applications of his theory and technique all within 200 pages. The introductory chapters of the book may resemble the histories of an idea that appear at the beginning of many psychoanalytic texts, but it behooves the reader of Newirth to tread carefully. At its onset, the reader is confronted with two premises that appear to inform the author's desire