Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and TopicsSusan Budd, Richard Rusbridger Introducing Psychoanalysis brings together leading analysts to explain what psychoanalysis is and how it has developed, setting its ideas in their appropriate social and intellectual context. Based on lectures given at the British Psychoanalytic Society, the contributions capture the diversity of opinion among analysts to provide a clear and dynamic presentation of concepts such as:
Frequently misunderstood subjects are demystified and the contributors' wealth of clinical and supervisory experience ensures that central concepts are explained with refreshing clarity. Clinical examples are included throughout and provide a valuable insight into the application of psychoanalytic ideas. This overview of the wide variety of psychoanalytic ideas that are current in Britain today will appeal to all those training and practicing in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as well as those wishing to broaden their knowledge of this field. |
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... baby relationship and the exist- ence of the death instinct . John Bowlby also diverged from Kleinian thinking and was to make important connections between psychoanalysis and biology as one of the founders of the study of attachment ...
... babies not to be able to command the world , they hallucinate what they wish as a defence against painful perceptions and knowledge . This is the bedrock , so to speak , from which grows unconscious fantasy . Whether we lay stress on ...
... babies and children had sexual desires , even if they were expressed via oral and anal images and ideas , was unbearable . Persistent attempts were made to get him to redefine the sexual basis of our interest in each other as love ; and ...
... babies . Klein had developed the view , taken up by Freud in a late paper , that the ego not only suppresses what is unacceptable : it may split if it feels intolerably anxious ( Klein 1946 ; Freud 1940 ) . There are similarities ...
... baby becomes able to develop a complex , three - dimensional view of his object which supersedes the earlier feeling that it is either ideally good or wholly bad . The consequences of this development are profound : dread lest his hate ...
Contents
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Envy and its relationship to guilt and projective identification 59 | 59 |
PART 2 | 75 |
Symbol formation and the construction of the Inner World | 95 |
Sexuality and the formation of identity | 123 |
The feminine | 142 |
The Oedipus complex II | 166 |
PART 4 | 181 |
Projective identification | 200 |
PART 5 | 227 |
Trauma and the possibility of recovery | 246 |
Index 263 | |
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