Embarrassment, shame, and humiliation -- The anxiety of being seen : narcissistic pride and narcissistic humiliation -- Gaze, dominance, and humiliation in the Schreber case -- Improvement and the embarrassment of tenderness -- Transference to the analyst as an excluded observer -- Helplessness, power, and dominance -- The struggle for dominance in the Oedipus situation -- Helplessness and the exercise of power in the analytic session -- Revenge and resentment in the 'Oedipus situation' -- Mourning, melancholia and the repetition compulsion -- The conflict between mourning and melancholia -- Repetition compulsion, envy, and the death instinct
Summary
This book examines the themes that surface when considering clinical situations where patients feel stuck and where a failure to develop impedes the progress of analysis
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188) and index
