The Road to Unity in Psychoanalytic Theory

With erudition, equilibrium and deep knowledge, Rangell points out the main problem of the day, the struggle between pluralism and unified psychoanalytic theory. This text examines both positions in an effort to separate rational thinking from passion and politics. The road to unity is for Rangell, to recognize the development of different points of view so as to expand the theory rather than to replace a theory by another. Rangell clearly distinguishes integration from split and proposes an objective approach.