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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... infantile powerlessness ( much greater in humans than animals ) and dependence on other people . Freud argued that since it is intolerable for babies not to be able to command the world , they hallucinate what they wish as a defence ...
... infantile in origin , but had been made impermissible by socialization . They had been repressed out of consciousness , and most had remained unconscious , concealed , inaccessible to conscious scrutiny . This was and remains a central ...
... infantile urges . Think too of the Oedipus complex , and how its resolution entails . the massive repression of the passions of ambivalence ( exclusive love and murderous hatred combined ) towards both parents . In social life ...
... infantile omnipotence , and are able to function appropriately as social beings . The ability to comply to some extent , and not to be exposed , to compromise between our desires and the environment , is an achievement . The adult who ...
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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 |