Identification in Psychoanalysis: A Comprehensive Introduction

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Foreword: symptoms, transferences, identifications
Exergue
I Identification and symptom formation
	Identification: the first references
	Hysterical identification
		The dream of the "witty butcher’s wife”
		Dream and hysteria: the Dora case
	Identification in dream-work
	Identification and the comic
		From dream to witticism
		The species of the comic or the play of comparisons
		Comic illusion
II Identification and narcissism
	Identification, orality and object-choice
		A genealogy of identification
		The work of puberty
		The two methods of choosing a sexual object
	“Totemic ” identification
		Identification and projection: magic as a model
		Totemism and the father complex
		Identification theory and practice
	Narcissistic identification
		The fate of the lost object: mourning or melancholia
		Supplemental note to Mourning and Melancholia: Karl Abraham
		Identification and metapsychology
III The Oedipus complex and the “institutions” of the ego
	Identification and repetition compulsion
		Memory and mastery: the double game of Fort-Da
	Love and identification: the function of the ideal
		The singular and the plural
		Identifications
		The ego and the ego ideal
	Genesis and structure of formations of the ego: ego and ego ideal - the superego
		Oedipal identifications
		Remarks on the ideal agency
		The work of the ego, between life instinct and death instinct
In conclusion
	Concluding an itinerary
		Freud I: dream, hysteria and jokes
		Freud II: narcissism
		Freud III: the death instinct and the second topographical model
	Elements of a metapsychology of identification
		Identification models
		Economy of identification
		Dynamics of identification
References
Index