Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9780367467029 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 168 str.

John Steiner

Opis

Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis explores and develops the role of illusion and daydream in everyday life, and in psychoanalysis. Using both clinical examples and literary works, idealised illusions and the inevitable disillusion that is met when reality makes an impact, are carefully explored.

 

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Acknowledgements Credit lines Foreword by Jay Greenberg Introduction 1. The Garden of Eden Illusion: Finding and Losing Paradise 2. Learning from Milton: The Dangerous Gap Between the Real and the Ideal 3. The Brutality of Truth and the Importance of Kindness 4. The Use and Abuse of Omnipotence in the Journey of the Hero 5. Disillusion, Humiliation, and Perversion of the Facts of Life 6. The Unbearability of Being Feminine 7. The Sympathetic Imagination: Keats and the Movement in and out of Projective Identification 8. The Impact of Trauma on the Ability to Face Disillusion 9. Learning from Don Quixote 10. Reconciling Phantasy and Reality: The Redeeming Nature of Irony References Index

O autorze

John Steiner is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and the author of Psychic Retreats (1993) and Seeing and Being Seen (2011). He has also edited and written introductions to The Oedipus Complex Today (1989), Papers by Hanna Segal (1997), Essays on Herbert Rosenfeld (2008), and Melanie Klein’s Lectures on Technique (2017).