A Mind of One's Own: A Kleinian View of Self and Object (New Library of Psychoanalysis)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Preface......Page 14
1 Introduction......Page 16
2 Psychoanalysis and suggestion: reflections on James Stratchey's 'The nature of the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis'......Page 24
3.1 Introduction......Page 34
3.2 Projective identification in the analytic process......Page 35
3.3 Origins of the analyst’s need to cure......Page 38
3.4 The emotional difficulties of psychoanalysis for the analyst......Page 39
3.5 The psychoanalyst as a real object......Page 41
3.6 Technical considerations......Page 43
3.7 Conclusion......Page 44
4.1 Introduction......Page 46
4.2 The interplay of transference and countertransference......Page 48
4.3 Clinical examples......Page 49
4.4.1 Strachey’s ‘auxiliary superego’......Page 50
4.4.2 The group superego......Page 52
4.4.3 The superego and containment......Page 53
4.5 Conclusion......Page 57
5.1 Introduction......Page 58
5.2  Evidence of psychoanalysis......Page 60
5.2.1 Isolation within an intimate relationship......Page 61
5.2.2. The aesthetic conflict......Page 64
5.3 Psychic reality......Page 67
5.4 Discussion......Page 69
6.1 Psychic reality......Page 72
6.2 Transference......Page 73
6.3 Clinical example......Page 75
6.4 Transference analysis......Page 78
6.5 Analysis of the archaic superego......Page 79
7.1 Primitive mental states......Page 82
7.2 Abnormal mental states and the failure to learn from experience......Page 84
7.3 Unconscious delusions and unconscious phantasies......Page 85
7.4 Clinical illustration......Page 86
7.5 A theoretical fallacy......Page 88
7.6 Psychoanalytic reconstruction......Page 90
7.7 Summary and conclusions......Page 93
8.1 Introduction......Page 96
8.2 Playing and experimentation......Page 97
8.3 Experimental play in psychoanalysis......Page 98
8.4 Experimental disasters in psychotic states......Page 100
8.5 Experimentation and sexuality......Page 101
8.6 Symbol formation and creativity......Page 102
8.7 Conclusion......Page 104
9.1 Unconscious conceptions......Page 106
9.2 Paranoid-schizoid internal objects......Page 109
9.3 Depressive internal objects......Page 111
9.4 Clinical example......Page 114
9.6 The internal world and the Oedipus complex......Page 116
10.1 Introduction......Page 120
10.1.1 Narcissistic aspects of the transference......Page 121
10.1.2 Non-narcissistic aspects of the transference......Page 125
10.1.3 Oedipal aspects of the transference......Page 126
10.2 Clinical illustration......Page 127
10.3 Discussion......Page 132
11.1 Introduction......Page 136
11.2 Alpha elements......Page 137
11.3 Beta elements......Page 139
11.4 Beta elements and countertransference......Page 142
12.1.1 Freudian repression and Kleinian splitting and projection......Page 146
12.1.2 The theory of the container......Page 149
12.1.3 Urgent and aggressive projective identification......Page 150
12.1.5 Synthetic alpha function......Page 152
12.1.6 The role of unconscious phantasy in the sense of reality......Page 153
12.2 Anti-alpha function......Page 154
12.3 Analytic alpha function......Page 155
12.4 Clinical illustrations......Page 156
12.5 Containment, security and insecurity......Page 160
Bibliography......Page 162
Index......Page 168