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HANLY, CHARLES. Existentialism and Psychoanalysis. New York, International Universities Press, 1979. Pp. 298.
Despite notable differences of approach and style, these two books provide an interesting dialogue round the shared theme of existentialism, seen in one as offering revolutionary hope, in the other as threatening damaging revisions for psychoanalytic theory and practice.
Medard Boss is a psychoanalyst, acquainted with Freud, and originally working within the Freudian framework, who came to feel resentful of the ‘strenuous mental acrobatics’ which this seemed to him to impose. After a long, but, it seems, disappointing detour via Jung, Boss eventually encountered the work of Heidegger, with whom he later shared a close friendship, and, by applying the philosopher's ideas to various clinical areas, developed