At last we have a book that provides a comprehensive overview and assessment of the intersubjective turn in psychoanalysis, showing its logical and clinical limitations and exploring its social and cultural determinants. Bohleber emphasizes the clinical importance of real traumatic experience along with the analysis of the transference.

Foreword , Introduction , The Intersubjective Paradigm in Psychoanalysis and Late Modernity , Intersubjectivity without a subject? Intersubjective theories and the Other , From surgeon to team-player: the transformation of guiding metaphors for the analytic relationship within clinical theory , Psychoanalytic theories of personality, adolescence, and the problem of identity in late modernity , Trauma, Memory, and Historical Context , The development of trauma theory in psychoanalysis , Remembrance, trauma, and collective memory: the battle for memory in psychoanalysis , Traumatic memories, dissociative states, and reconstruction , Psychoanalysis of Ideological Destructivity , Purity, unity, violence: unconscious determinants of anti-Semitism in Germany , Ideality and destructiveness: towards a psychodynamics of fundamentalist terrorist violence