The Omnipotent State of Mind: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781032027937 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

Jean Arundale

Opis

This book presents an examination and exploration of the concept of omnipotence, its qualities and expression as a psychic state, its origins in the psyche and its appearance in the psychoanalytic process and in society.

Spis treści

Introduction  In the beginning . . .  1. The survival function of primitive omnipotence  2. The thumb-in-the-mouth phantasy and the capacity to love  3. Peter Pan, the omnipotent child  In the adolescent . . .  4. Omnipotence in adolescence  5. Customising the body: From omnipotence to autonomy  In the adult . . .  6. On three forms of thinking: Magical thinking, dream thinking, and transformative thinking  7. The appeal of omnipotence  8. A neuropsychoanalytic note on omnipotence  9. The relinquishment of omnipotence in a severely traumatised patient  10. Possessed by a cruel God: The damaging effect of an omnipotent internal object  11. From patients to presidents: The Grand Illusion  Why is omnipotence so difficult to give up?  12. Overcoming obstacles in analysis: Is it possible to relinquish omnipotence and accept receptive femininity?  13. Omnipotence and the difficulty in relinquishing it  The desire for power in culture and society . . .  14. Omnipotence and the paradoxes of insight: A Darwinian look  15. Lear, Kane and the workings of omnipotence  16. Applying my theory of psychosis to the Nazi phenomenon  17. The destructiveness of omnipotence and ‘perverted containing’: Psychoanalytic reflections on the dynamic between Donald Trump and his supporters  18. Notes toward a model for omnipotence

O autorze

Jean Arundale, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Association and author of the book Identity, Narcissism, and the Other (Routledge). She is also co-editor of Transference and Countertransference and Interpretive Voices (both Routledge).