Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1: Mainly Theory: Developments in Theory and Practice (New Library of Psychoanalysis, 7)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 9
General introduction......Page 10
Note......Page 16
PART ONE The analysis of psychotic patients......Page 17
Introduction......Page 18
The controversy concerning the approach to schizophrenic patients by psychoanalysis......Page 21
Some psychoanalytic views about the superego in schizophrenia......Page 25
HISTORY OF PATIENT......Page 28
THE TREATMENT......Page 29
TECHNIQUE......Page 30
A FEW DAYS LATER......Page 40
THE ‘HELPFUL’ SUPEREGO......Page 43
PRIMARY ENVY......Page 44
Conclusion......Page 52
Summary......Page 54
Notes......Page 55
References......Page 56
2 Depression in the schizophrenic......Page 59
1st example......Page 60
2nd example......Page 63
Notes......Page 67
3 Differentiation of the psychotic from the non-psychotic personalities......Page 68
Conclusion......Page 84
References......Page 85
PART TWO Projective identification......Page 86
Introduction......Page 87
1 Attacks on linking......Page 93
Clinical examples......Page 94
Features common to the above illustrations......Page 97
Curiosity, arrogance, and stupidity......Page 100
Denial of normal degrees of projective identification......Page 101
Consequences......Page 104
Arrested development......Page 105
References......Page 106
Introduction......Page 108
The characterology......Page 109
The nature of the transference......Page 111
The dreams......Page 112
Clinical material......Page 113
The cryptic anal masturbation......Page 116
The analytic process......Page 117
Further clinical material......Page 118
References......Page 121
3 Contribution to the psychopathology of psychotic states......Page 123
The psychoanalytic treatment of the processes related to projective identification in the psychotic patient......Page 133
PATIENT A......Page 135
Summary......Page 141
Notes......Page 142
References......Page 143
4 Protective identification— some clinical aspects......Page 144
Summary......Page 156
PART THREE On thinking......Page 157
Introduction......Page 158
1 Notes on symbol formation......Page 165
Postscript 1979: Notes on symbol formation......Page 176
References......Page 181
2 A theory of thinking......Page 183
3 The experience of the skin in early object-relations......Page 192
Infant observation: Baby Alice......Page 193
Analysis of a schizophrenic girl: Mary......Page 194
Summary......Page 195
PART FOUR Pathological organizations......Page 197
Introduction......Page 198
The schizoid mode of being......Page 206
The space-time continuum and displacement in the borderline......Page 220
References......Page 232
Case material......Page 233
Discussion of clinical material......Page 238
Theoretical discussion and summary......Page 239
Note......Page 241
3 A clinical approach to the psychoanalytic theory of the life and death instincts: an investigation into the aggressive aspects of narcissism......Page 242
Summary......Page 257
References......Page 258
4 Cruelty and narrowmindedness......Page 260
Clinical example......Page 261
Developments in the analysis......Page 267
Second clinical example......Page 269
Theoretical considerations......Page 271
Summary......Page 273
References......Page 274
5 Narcissistic organization, projective identification, and the formation of the identificate......Page 275
Clinical material......Page 285
References......Page 296
6 A clinical study of a defensive organization......Page 297
Presenting predicament......Page 298
Establishment of a defensive organization......Page 303
Exploitation of the defensive organization......Page 307
Progress forward......Page 309
Summary......Page 313
References......Page 314
7 Addiction to near-death......Page 315
References......Page 327
8 The interplay between pathological organizations and the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions......Page 328
The characteristics of pathological organizations......Page 331
The interplay with the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions......Page 332
Clinical material......Page 333
Discussion......Page 339
Summary......Page 344
References......Page 345
References to general introduction and other introductory material......Page 347
Name Index......Page 354
Subject Index......Page 357
ALSO IN THIS SERIES......Page 363