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Symbiosis and Ambiguity : a Psychoanalytic Study.
Symbiosis and Ambiguity is the first English edition of the classic study of early object relations by influential Argentinian psychoanalyst José Bleger (1922-1972). It is rooted in Kleinian thinking and rich in clinical material. Bleger's thesis is that starting from primitive undifferentiati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | New library of psychoanalysis.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Symbiosis and Ambiguity; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Editorial Introduction; The value of this book for psychoanalysts today; The context in which the book was written: Argentinian psychoanalysis in the 1950s and 1960s; Structure and composition of the book; Synopsis; The relation between this book and the rest of José Bleger's work; Commentary on José Bleger's work in the psychoanalytic movement; About the present translation; Editorial conventions; Acknowledgements; Symbiosis and Ambiguity; Prologue; Part One: On Symbiosis.
- 1 Study of dependence-independence in relation to the process of projection-introjectionObjective; Autism and symbiosis in the transference; Background; Transference narcissism; Symbiosis and psychopathic acting; The patient's history; Dependence-independence; Summary; Comments on the initiation of the treatment; The course of the treatment; Fragmentation, dissociation and control in space; Re-introjection and the body as a 'buffer'; Some characteristics of the emergence of insight; Summary and conclusions; 2 Symbiosis in Warrior's Rest; Symbiosis and the nature of the object relation.
- The materialConditioning of the symbiotic link; An encounter and the return of the repressed; The process of accepting the depositary; Recapitulation; The confi guration or establishment of the symbiotic link; Derision and pity; Metamorphosis; Dangers of the symbiotic relation; Time; Sexuality; Equilibrium in the symbiotic link; Vicissitudes of the symbiotic link; Agglutination and dispersion; Fragmentation of the agglutinated object through diversification of object relations; Separation; Summary of the subsequent course of the symbiosis; Epilogue; Summary and conclusions.
- 3 Modalities of object relations4 Study of the psychotic part of the personality; Introduction; Technical problems; Study of the clinical material; Summary and conclusions; Part Two: On Ambiguity; 5 Ambiguity in psychoanalytic clinical work; Introduction; Discrimination of the concept of ambiguity; Ambiguity and other phenomena; The clinical picture and structure of ambiguity; The omnipotence of the 'syncretic ego'; Transitional phenomena; Conflict and dilemma; 'Factic ego' and psychopathic personality; The ambiguity of acting out; Thought; The authoritarian personality; Synthesis.
- Why does ambiguity persist?The 'blunting' function of ambiguity in regression; Comments on the literature related to ambiguity; 6 Psychoanalysis of the psychoanalytic setting; Summary; Part Three: Appendix; 7 Ambivalence and ambiguity: the background literature; Bleuler; Ambiguity in the works of Freud; Divalence in the works of Freud; Ambivalence in the works of Freud; M. Klein and R. Fairbairn; Studies by other authors; Other background literature concerning ambiguity; 8 Commentary on 'The antithetical meaning of primal words'; 9 Ambiguity and syncretism in Freud's 'The "Uncanny"'