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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... feelings . Sometimes analytic patients cope with painful feelings about their analysts by a fantasy of incorporating them ; they unconsciously adopt their voices , opinions , ways of behaving , and so on . Joseph pays careful attention ...
... feeling that it is either ideally good or wholly bad . The consequences of this development are profound : dread lest his hate for his object should have been too strong for his love for it , and guilt at having damaged it , which can ...
... feelings ) and from the external world , which presents the mind with stimuli that may also lead to tempting but forbidden ideas and feelings . Where there is conflict between the agencies of the mind , the ego has to perform the ...
... feeling continues to be unbearable or unacceptable to consciousness , yet since the defence is too weak it threatens to break through the defensive barrier and into consciousness . A compromise has to be hastily reached , between the ...
... feelings . Freud understood this apparent paradox as the manifestation of a struggle between the wish to know , under- stand , change ; and the wish not to . The resistances that the patient employs are defences in action the surface ...
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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Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and Topics Susan Budd,Richard Rusbridger Limited preview - 2005 |
Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and Topics Susan Budd,Richard Rusbridger Limited preview - 2005 |