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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... object - relations tra- dition . ( ' Object ' is a confusing term : Freud used it to mean other people as seen by us . We cannot know them directly ; they are the objects of our desires , beliefs , etc. ) Freud thought that we ...
... object relations and North American drive psychology is too sharp . Our instincts are mediated by and expressed through other people , but nor are we completely plastic . Our unconscious is formed not only as a result of the demands of ...
... object - relations trad- ition has laid more emphasis on their aggressive fantasies . Freud then began to visualize the mind less as composed of layers - as in his favourite archaeological metaphor - than as being made up of agencies or ...
... 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 for his object should have been too strong for his love for it , and ...
... object-relations tradition has laid more emphasis on their aggressive fantasies. Freud then began to visualize the mind less as composed of layers – as in his favourite archaeological metaphor – than as being made up of agencies or ...
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 |