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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... primitive states of dividing our objects into perfect and wholly bad ones - against this pain . The two ' posi- tions ' oscillate in our minds throughout life . The normal paranoid - schizoid position is essential for maintaining ...
... primitive aggression whose destructiveness we see in war can in peace be converted into its opposite by reaction - formation . Then , it can use the same enormous amount of energy to serve civilization rather than to destroy it ...
... primitive and narcis- sistic to ones less so ) . Each developmental phase is negotiated and in normal- ity superseded , but it is never completely obliterated : passing through it leaves an imprint , an inscription on the mind . In ...
... primitive in origin : they can and do appear in earliest infancy , during that prehistoric era which precedes language and the differentiation of the mind into separate agencies . Once the mind has become more structured , such primitive ...
... primitive defence : introjection . Like projection , introjection also involves a change of locus , a relocation , but this time in a direction opposite to that of projection . In introjection something that is outside is taken inside ...
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 |