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1 online resource (383 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgement -- 1 Inoculative identification in Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train -- 2 Self-envy, the womb and the nature of goodness -- a reappraisal of the death instinct -- 3 The destructive confounding of intra-uterine and post-uterine feeding as a factor against emotional growth -- 4 What could be better than nuclear warfare?: An essay on the quest for eirenarchic survival -- 5 Dreams Grown False: The "cannibalization" of alpha function |
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6 The role of Disidentification in the growth of personality and during the analytic termination phase -- Disidentification and disavowal -- Eugenie Grandet and Catherine Sloper -- Disidentification, the combined object and the depressive position -- The Squid and the Whale -- Transference and countertransference just prior to disidentification -- A clinical fragment -- Disidentification and termination -- Higgins and Doolittle -- separation, disidentification and the depressive position -- Disidentification and the developing self -- Further analyst-parent countertransference issues -- Summary |
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7 Working through, or beyond the depressive position? Achievements and defences of a Spiritual position -- The depressive position -- Beyond the depressive position -- Defences against the spiritual position -- Discussion -- The emergence of a feeling philosophical value system in the spiritual position -- The "Merlin-Father" in the transformation of schizoid detachment into observing-ego-in-feeling -- Psychoanalytic and artistic technique -- A suggested metapsychological revision -- 8 "I'm Miss Red!" Reworking a premature weaning in a lonely young girl |
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9 Loneliness and its amelioration through transformations of the Internal Father -- The female poet and her father -- Loneliness and boredom -- 10 Two Vices and a film review -- (i) Sometimes a cigar ... on smokers and non-smokers -- Death and the Marlboro -- Holding it together: the crippled self and the little glowing cherry -- Puffed-up Narcissism and contemptuous rage -- Smoking in identification with an admired-and-hated father-figure -- Oral-oedipal-genital fusion and confusion -- The link with the sensual and the erotic -- Evanescence -- The significance of Swearing as a proto-language |
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Life and Death of a Planet in Melancholia -- a film about depressive cynicism -- 11 The wrecking and re-pairing of the internal couple: In clinical work and in Shakespeare's Othello and The Winter's Tale -- Part II -- 12 Trees of Knowledge in Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders -- 13 Distraction -- as both an important manic defence, and yet also as a creative unconscious consolation when facing immense depressive or disintegrative states -- The changing concept of Manic Defences -- Manic Denial compared to sublimatory reparation -- Distraction in the socio-cultural matrix |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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14 Narcissus Rejects: Unbearable Beauty and the urge to destroy it, in The Comfort of Strangers |
| Subject |
Psychoanalysis -- Philosophy
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Death instinct.
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Psychoanalysis and the arts.
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Death instinct.
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Psychoanalysis and the arts.
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Psychoanalysis -- Philosophy.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003802273 |
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1003802273 |
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