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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... hate for his object should have been too strong for his love for it , and guilt at having damaged it , which can ... hatred and , in a less destructive form , emulatory envy ' , in which we can admire and learn from others . It is when ...
... hated them enough to wish them dead was consciously unbearable . She had therefore repressed the death wish , and its accompanying phantasy that she would then be free to have a relationship with a man . The disguised form in which it ...
... hatred combined ) towards both parents . In social life , repression of manifestations of both the sexual and the ... hates ; but she will not on that account be more loving in general than other women or even more affectionate to other ...
... hating lesbian ' , Ms B was physically and emotionally violent towards her long - term female partner . Ms B's ... hatred , rage , contempt and helpless fear towards her father , who had been emotionally and physically abusive towards ...
... to passivity ( from sadism to masochism or from scopophilia to exhibitionism ) or a change of content , as when love is transformed into hate . 2 Anna Freud's work was particularly influential in North America Galatariotou : The defences ...
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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