| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 152 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Difficult identity -- Interminable illusion -- Identity : internal objects and the superego -- Identity : the oedipal vicissitudes to adolescense -- The laborious integration of the body image in adolescence -- Adolescense as mode of mental functioning and matrix of identity -- Psychopathology of the process of the work of identity : resistance and loneliness when aggression is turned into masochism -- Vicissitudes of identity and marriage -- Transference : a continuous search for the origin -- On analysis terminable and interminable -- Loss and its destinies -- Treating psychotic children : the experience of anonymity or the feeling of losing one's identity |
| Summary |
Every human being about to be born is loaned a provisional identity. This identity is embodied in the name they are given, as an invention, internal need, or generational obligation, parental fantasy or delusion. Both the person receiving and the person bestowing the name--and, with it, the provisional identity--are unaware of all this. Interweaving theoretical reflections and clinical histories, Pia De Silvestris illustrates the dramatic nature, the profundity, and the cryptic complexity of the challenges posed by this difficult identity--challenges she has faced repeatedly throughout her psychoanalytic career. She sees the role of transference in psychic and relational life as a "continuous search for the origin", a force that develops continuously through a variety of exchanges and investments, which seek, on the one hand, to weaken the bond to the original object and, on the other, to preserve it until death. Throughout the book's chapters, we see how it is precisely the product of the transference experience that permits the joint work of identity construction to begin. Transference is always the outcome of an experience of fulfilment and an encounter with the other; and it is desire of the other that promotes the search for the self |
| Notes |
The text of the Grimm fairy tale Hans in luck is translated by D.L. Ashliman |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-144) and index |
| Notes |
In English; translated from the Italian |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Identity (Psychology) in children.
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Identity (Psychology) in youth.
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Child psychopathology -- Case studies
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Adolescent psychopathology -- Case studies
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
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Adolescent psychopathology
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Child psychopathology
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Identity (Psychology) in children
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Identity (Psychology) in youth
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mark, Sean, editor, translator
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Ashliman, D. L., translator
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Translation of (work): De Silvestris, Pia.
Difficile identità
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| ISBN |
9781000161014 |
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1000161013 |
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9781003076292 |
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1003076297 |
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9781000144734 |
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1000144739 |
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9781000122312 |
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100012231X |
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