Birth to Psychic Life

ISBN-13: 9781032013695 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 412 str.

Marc Lhopital

Opis

Based on rich clinical experience and on theory from numerous psychoanalytical works, this book explores and analyses the emergence and development of the psychic life.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: 1. Introjection and its Relations to the Construction of the Psychical Apparatus  2. The First Containing External Object: the Momentary Object  Part 2: 3. The Optimal Containing Object  4. Psychic Space  Part 3: 5. On Adhesive Identification: Genesis of the Psychic Skin  6. On Symbiosis: a Common Skin  7. On the Skin-ego: a Complete Psychic Envelope  8. Conclusion: Psychic Birth and Psychopathological Deviations  Part 4: 9. Splitting and Idealization: the Life Drives/Death Drives Duality  10. The Genesis and Development of Thought-Activity  Part 5: 11. Projective Identification: Definition and Description  12. Projective Identification: Motives, Consequences, Phenomenology  Part 6: 13. The Inadequacies of the Containing object  14. Phantasied Attacks on the Object  15. "Second Skin" Formation