Primitive Agony and Symbolization.
Title:
Primitive Agony and Symbolization.
Author:
Roussillon, Rene.
ISBN:
9781849407779
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (401 pages)
Series:
The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Author -- Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series: IPA Publications Committee -- Introduction: Primary Trauma, Splitting, and Non-Symbolic Primary Binding -- Part I: Agony -- Chapter One: Drives and Intersubjectivity -- Chapter Two: The Capacity to be alone in the Presence of the Analyst -- Chapter Three: Interpretation, Play, and Style -- Chapter Four: Play and Potential -- Chapter Five: Communicating Primitive Experiences -- Chapter Six: The Primitive "Inter-I" and Primary "Doubled" Homosexuality -- Chapter Seven: Destructiveness and Complex Forms of the "Survival" of the Object -- Part II: Symbolizations -- Chapter Eight: The Symbolizing Function of the Object -- Chapter Nine: Associativity and Non-Verbal Language -- Chapter Ten: Research and Exploration in Psychoanalysis -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
The fundamental outlook of this book is clinical. It attempts to establish a unitary model of the processes at work in different forms of narcissistic pathology, and to offer a model that is both an alternative to, and complementary to, Freud's model of what are usually considered to be neurotic problems. The aim is to extract a sequence of mental processes that could be seen as typical of narcissistic disturbances of the sense of identity, with their several forms and clinical variations. The book describes how these are structured, together with their intrapsychic and intersubjective functions, based on the hypothesis of a defensive pattern that is set up to counter the effect of a split-off primary trauma and the threat that hangs over the mind and subjectivity.
Local Note:
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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