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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... repression . What we cannot stand to think or remember , we learn to repress from consciousness . The unconscious - usually ... repressed , is still a perfectly adequate way of describing many mental manoeuvres . Much psychic pain can be ...
... repression , but goes on to describe the further work done by Freud's daughter Anna , and by Klein on defences , in which they linked them up to inner objects . She makes it clear that , although she is describing the defences ...
... repression , disavowal , identification with the aggressor , projection , introjection , false self , etc. constitute most of the basic vocabulary of psychoanalysis . Very often these terms are used without awareness that they belong to ...
... repression is a response to anxiety . Freud had previously thought that anxiety was due to repression . ) Anxiety warns the ego that there is an approaching danger , namely the danger of a possible future trauma which would over- whelm ...
... desire , and fearing such gratification - and thus wanting to control , harness , regulate and at times even stifle desire altogether . Repression Repression is the doyen of the defences and the 18 Introducing psychoanalysis.
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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