But at the Same Time and on Another Level : Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique in the Kleinian/Bionian Mode

ISBN-13: 9781855757868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 382 str.

James S. Grotstein

Opis

This work is a -beginning-, a primer to elucidate general principles on how the psychoanalyst or psychoanalytically informed psychotherapist may optimally provide and maintain the setting for the psychoanalysis, listen to and process the analysand's free associations, and ultimately intervene with interpretations--principally from the Kleinian/Bionian perspective, including the contemporary London post-Kleinians and today's Kleinians and Bionians elsewhere. Grotstein follows that tradition in respecting the foundational work of Klein's original contributions and demonstrating how they naturally emerge into contemporary (post-) Kleinian and -Bionian- thinking.

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction -- Bridges to other schools and to psychotherapy -- Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy -- The evolution of Kleinian through “post-Kleinian” to “Bionian” technique -- Contributions by Klein’s descendants -- “In search of a second opinion”: the task of psychoanalysis -- The analytic project: what is the analyst’s task? -- Some notes on the philosophy of technique -- The psychoanalytic session as a dream, as improvisational theatre, and as sacred drama -- Psychoanalytic dependency and regression -- The Kleinian conception of the unconscious -- The “once-and-forever-and-ever-evolving infant of the unconscious” -- The concept of “aloneness” and the absence and presence of the analyst -- Notes on the unconsciouses -- The overarching role of unconscious phantasy -- The ubiquitousness of object relationships -- The Kleinian version of epigenesis and development, and Klein’s theory of the positions -- Klein’s view of the death instinct -- The Kleinian view of defence mechanisms -- Psychic retreats or pathological organizations -- The negative therapeutic reaction and psychoanalytic resistance -- Transference ↔ countertransference ↔ reverie -- Infantile sexuality versus infantile dependency and the Kleinian view of the Oedipus complex -- The importance of the Kleinian concepts of greed, envy, and jealousy -- The Kleinian view of the superego -- “This house against this house”: splitting of the ego and the object -- The constellating importance of projective identification -- Projective transidentification -- Bion’s modifications and extension of Kleinian technique -- The instruments of psychoanalytic technique: the faculties the analyst must use -- The clinical instruments in Dr Bion’s treatment bag

O autorze

James S. Grotstein