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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... impulses arising in one part of the mind and defences against these impulses . His first model of the mind had been based on repression . What we cannot stand to think or remember , we learn to repress from consciousness . The ...
... impulses ; the superego the fiercely irrational , unreasonable half- instinctual force which suppresses them ; and the ego the rational part of the mind which is in touch with the external world , and which tries to mediate between our ...
... impulses; the superego the fiercely irrational, unreasonable halfinstinctual force which suppresses them; and the ego the rational part of the mind which is in touch with the external world, and which tries to mediate between our ...
... impulses emanate . It is dominated by the ' pleasure principle ' - the tendency to seek the pleasure that comes from the gratifica- tion of instinctual impulses . The id is a ' seething cauldron ' , Freud thought , which knows nothing ...
... impulse has proved too strong for the defence or the defence has proved too weak for the impulse . The difficulty now is that the threatening idea or feeling continues to be unbearable or unacceptable to consciousness , yet since the ...
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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