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Author Zwettler-Otte, Sylvia, 1946-

Title The melody of separation : a psychoanalytic study of separation anxiety / Sylvia Zwettler-Otte
Published Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, [2011]
©2011

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Description 188 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents Contents note continued: 3.5.1.A "healthy" patient after a traumatic loss -- 3.5.2.An "ill" patient -- 4.Separation and old age -- 4.1.The "duel of age". Age and rivalry -- 4.2.The threat of separation due to old age -- 4.3.Age - sense of shame and guilt -- 4.4.The irrational Crescendo of hope -- 4.5."Without net" -- 4.6.Looking young - a pleasant psychosomatic symptom -- 4.7.Pleasure in old age -- 5.Separation and its vicissitudes -- 5.1.Mourning or depression -- 5.2.Symbiosis and denial of separation -- 5.3.Conflict and compromise -- 5.3.1.External separation, internal fixation -- 5.3.2.Internal separation, external fixation -- 5.3.3."The dead mother" or "frozen love" -- 5.4.Separation and distance -- 5.5.Projected wishes for separation -- 5.6.Aggression and terror -- 5.7.Emptiness -- 5.8.Psychosomatic impasses -- 6.Separation anxiety in the psychotherapeutic process -- 6.1.Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy -- 6.2.The choice of an analyst --
Contents note continued: 6.3.The setting and the frequency of sessions -- 6.4.Weekends and holidays -- 6.5.Transference love and the "limited" love of the analyst -- 6.6.The role of the third in regard to separation -- 6.7."Analysis terminable and interminable" -- 7.Separation and creativity - experiencing and creating art -- 7.1.The capacity of mourning - an aspect of Arthur Schnitzler's novel "Dying" -- 7.2.The metaphor of petrification -- 7.2.1.Converted to stone -- 7.2.2.Animated to life -- 7.3.The reparation in the mosaic -- 7.4.Venice- flooded by the melody of separation -- 7.5.Alberto Giacometti's shrivelling figures
Machine generated contents note: 1.Psychoanalytic bases -- 1.1.Bonding and separation as basic principles of life -- 1.2.Psychoanalysis - a bridge between nature and culture -- 1.3.Separation - mourning and depression -- 1.4.Anxiety as unpleasant state of affect -- 1.4.1.Birth as a "model" of separation anxiety -- 1.4.2.Separation-anxiety and separation-pain -- 2.The danger of loss and our knowledge of transience -- 2.1.Consequences of separation-anxiety, binding devalued or overvalued -- 2.1.1.Don Juan and the comfort of multiplicity -- 2.1.2.The female restorer -- 2.2.Simultaneously knowing and not-knowing - a tricky compromise -- 2.3.Our own death and the pleasure of extinction -- 2.4.Pleasure principle saved -- 3.Facets of separation -- 3.1.Summary of aspects already mentioned -- 3.2.Examples of psychoanalytic literature considering separation-anxiety -- 3.3.Separation as achievement -- 3.4.Daily exercises in losing objects -- 3.5.Chronology of separation anxieties --
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 179-183)
Subject Bereavement -- Psychological aspects.
Separation (Psychology)
Bereavement.
Separation anxiety.
LC no. 2011292208
ISBN 3631589387
9783631589380