Introduction to the Work of Donald Meltzer.
Title:
Introduction to the Work of Donald Meltzer.
Author:
Fano Cassese, Silvia.
ISBN:
9781849403450
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (147 pages)
Contents:
COVER -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CHARTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- PART I: From projective identification to the psychoanalytic process -- Chapter 1. Projective identification with internal objects -- A. Projection and projective identification -- B. Massive projective identification -- C. Intrusive projective identification with internal objects -- pseudomaturity -- D. Adhesive identification -- projective identification in folie à deux -- E. Introjective identification -- B. The five phases of analysis -- C. Recovery from analysis, self-analysis, and dream work -- PART II: Perversion, psychosis, dream life -- Chapter 3. Sexual states of mind -- A. Basis of the theory of sexuality and of perversion -- B. Adult and infantile sexuality -- C. Terror and perversion -- D. The dismantled object, the fetishistic object, and the transitional object -- Chapter 4. Explorations in autism -- A. Impairment of dimensionality -- B. Primitive obsessional mechanisms -- C. Dismantling -- D. Intrinsic qualities of the autistic child and environment -- E. "Psychotic illness in early childhood ten years on from Explorations in Autism" -- Chapter 5. Dream life -- A. Bion's influence on Meltzer's theory -- B. Meltzer's critique of Freud's interpretation of dreams -- C. Klein's and Bion's theories -- D. Meltzer's theory of dreams as an unconscious thought -- PART III: The sublime and the "uncanny" -- Introductory remarks -- Chapter 6. The aesthetic conflict and the enigmatic inside -- A. The concept of internal space -- B. The aesthetic conflict -- C. Aesthetic reciprocity -- D. Three important aspects of the aesthetic conflict -- Chapter 7. The claustrum: the internal world experienced from inside -- A. The inexpressible terror of the claustrum and the uncanny.
B. The claustrum and the compartments of the inner world -- C. The world of psychosis -- D. Conclusions -- APPENDIX 1: "I've been done its way!" An interview with Donald Meltzer -- APPENDIX 2: Learning from experience with Donald Meltzer -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Introduction to the Work of Donald Meltzer is a critical survey of Donald Meltzer's central themes which simultaneously focuses on the most important concepts of his work. This detailed volume should not only spark the reader's interest in these fascinating, yet complex, themes but also encourage readers to deepen their knowledge of them. 'I have tried to point out an aspect which, in my view, is fundamental in Meltzer's theory: that is, the possibility of communicating those typical aspects of his analytical work which go beyond the well-established and reassuring technique. Meltzer's interest constantly turns to that area which is difficult to describe in words and perhaps cannot be expressed in conventional language: the emotional area of non-verbal communication, of reverie and unconscious thinking.'- From the Preface.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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