The Emergent Container in Psychoanalysis: Experiencing Absence and Future

ISBN-13: 9781032200064 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 200 str.

Ana Martinez Acobi

Opis

Drawing largely from the psychoanalytic ground of Jung, Bion and Winnicott, from Plato and Whitehead, A. N., and from numerous clinical studies, this book explores ‘Absence’ and ‘Future’ in the context of their many emotional and conceptual meanings.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. Absence and Future  2. Hallucination as Pathology and as Entrée into the Collective Unconscious  3. Bion's Theory of Thinking, Absence, Container/Contained. Projective Identification and Hallucination  4. Absence and Precursor to Pathological Organisation and Equally as Basic to Psychic Life  5. Negative Capability  6. Experience and Whitehead: "Philosophy is a lure for feeling" (Whitehead, 1929)  7. Whitehead and Heraclitus: Permanence, Flux and Novelty  8. Being, Becoming and Modes of Being  9. Quaternio  10. Formlessness  11. Interrelations  Index

O autorze

Ana Martínez Acobi is a practising Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in North West London. She was born in Spain in 1967 and moved to London in 1986 where she studied and trained. Her interest lies in studying the unity of metaphysical and psychoanalytic thinking.