Immaterial Facts: Freud's Discovery of Psychic Reality and Klein's Development of His Work

ISBN-13: 9780415220842 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 176 str.

Robert Caper

Opis

Freud's most influential discovery was the importance of what he called psychic reality in the functioning of the mind. Melanie Klein has mined thoroughly the vein of mental life that he discovered, and the results of her work have had an impact on psychoanalytic thinking throughout the world. In this text, Dr Caper shows how Melanie Klein's studies of sexuality, aggression, unconscious phantasy and identification in children, both extended and corrected Freud's theories of the early development of the superego and the early stages of the Oedipus complex in both boys and girls. Klein's development of Freud's work has allowed psychoanalysts not only to achieve deeper and more stable therapeutic results with neurotic patients, but also to begin to extend the therapeutic scope of psychoanalysis into the area of more severe emotional disturbances. Immaterial Facts should prove useful reading to both to professionals and students interested in the treatment of emotional disturbances and the functioning of the mind.

Spis treści

Part 1 Freud’s Discovery of Psychic Reality; Chapter 1 Immaterial Facts; Chapter 2 Psychology without a Psyche; Chapter 3 The Discovery of Unconscious Fantasy; Chapter 4 The Structure of Dreams and Neurosis; Chapter 5 Transference and the Crystallization of the Psychoanalytic Method; Chapter 6 Gravitational Confinement; Chapter 7 A Specimen Case: Little Hans; Chapter 8 Identification and the Structure of the Inner World; Chapter 9 Anxiety and the Structure of the Inner World; Chapter 10 Beyond Eros; Part 2 Melanie Klein’s Development of Freud’s Work; Chapter 11 Melanie Klein’s Place in Psychoanalysis; Chapter 12 The Method of Child Psychoanalysis; Chapter 13 The Child’s Construction of Experience; Chapter 14 Instinct, Fantasy, and Early Psychic Processes; Chapter 15 Projective Identification and the Formation of the Inner World; Chapter 16 The Transformation of the Superego: Psychological Integration and Growth; Chapter 17 The Early Stages of the Oedipus Complex; Chapter 18 Envy and Gratitude, Splitting and Integration; Chapter 19 Psychoanalytic Knowledge; Chapter 20 Freud and Klein: A Summary;

O autorze

Dr. Robert Caper is a graduate of Reed College and UCLA School of Medicine. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Centre of California, and the author of A Mind of One’s Own, as well as numerous papers on psychoanalytic theory and technique.