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November 19, 1979. THE CURRENT PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUE: ITS COUNTERPART IN RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY. Simon A. Grolnick, M.D.
Dr. Grolnick discussed an important area of concern to psychoanalysts today: the debate between the "classical" or "structural" theorists and their critics. The critics (Kohut, Winnicott, Schafer, and Loewald were mentioned in this paper) reactively respond to certain theoretical, technical, philosophical, and methodological premises of classical psychoanalysis. Among the cogent philosophical problems are those which involve these pairs: determinism and freedom, subject and object, natural science and human or cultural science, logic and emotion, and art and science. Dr. Grolnick believes it is pertinent that these same dualities existed as vital questions during the Renaissance. The dialectical solutions that emerged at that time were fostered in part by the continuing interplay of Neo-Platonist thought and Aristotelian influences. By drawing this parallel with