The Surviving Object: Psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object

ISBN-13: 9781032075181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 186 str.

Jan Abram

Opis

In this book, Abram proposes and elaborates the dual concept of an intrapsychic surviving and non surviving object and examines how psychic survival-of-the-object places the early m/Other at the centre of the nascent psyche before innate factors are relevant.

Spis treści

Why Winnicott?  1. Squiggles, clowns and Catherine wheels: violation of the self and its vicissitudes (1996)  2. The surviving object (2003)  3. The non surviving object: reflections on the roots of terror (2005)  4. The fear of WOMAN/analysis: reflections on desire, infantile sexuality and psychic survival-of-the-object (2010)  5. On Winnicott’s clinical innovations in the analysis of adults (2012)  6. On Winnicott’s area of formlessness: the pure female element and the capacity to feel real (2013)  7. The paternal integrate and its role in the analyzing situation 2013)  8. The fear of madness in the context of nachträglichkeit and the negative therapeutic reaction (2018)  Appendix: The dating of Fear of Breakdown and The Psychology of Madness and why it matters (2018)

O autorze

Jan Abram is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Visiting Professor of the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College, London. She is Vice President of the European Psychoanalytic Federation. She has published several books and articles notably: The Language of Winnicott (1st edition 1996; 2nd edition 2007), Outstanding Academic Book of the year (1997); Donald Winnicott Today (2013); The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott: comparisons and dialogues (2018 with co-author R. D. Hinshelwood).