| Description |
xiv, 416 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Critical issues in psychoanalysis ; 3 |
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Critical issues in psychoanalysis ; 3
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| Contents |
1. Beating Fantasies in Children -- 2. The Essence of Masochism -- 3. Masochism and the Delusion of Omnipotence from a Developmental Perspective -- 4. Postoedipal Transformations: Latency, Adolescence, and Pathogenesis -- 5. Projection and Externalization -- 6. Varieties of Transference in the Analysis of an Adolescent -- 7. Externalization as a Pathological Form of Relating: The Dynamic Underpinnings of Abuse -- 8. Attempted Suicide in Adolescence: The Suicide Sequence -- 9. A "Boo Warning": Ego Disruption in an Abused Little Girl -- 10. "I Hate You for Saving My Life": Borrowed Trauma in the Analysis of a Young Adult -- 11. Talking with Toddlers -- 12. Negative Therapeutic Motivation and Negative Therapeutic Alliance -- 13. Deciding on Termination: The Relevance of Child and Adolescent Analytic Experience to Work with Adults -- 14. Termination: A Case Report of the End Phase of an "Interminable" Analysis -- 5. Sadomasochism and the Therapeutic Alliance: Implications for Clinical Technique |
| Summary |
Using data from infant observation, and child, adolescent, and adult analyses, the Novicks explicate a multidimensional, developmental theory of sadomasochism that has been recognized as a major innovation. According to the Novicks, each phase of development contributes to the clinical manifestations of sadomasochism. Painful experiences in infancy are transformed into a mode of attachment, then into an embraced marker of specialness and unlimited destructive power, then into a conviction of equality with oedipal parents, and, finally, into an omnipotent capacity to gratify infantile wishes through the coercion of others |
| Notes |
First published: Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson, 1996 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-402) and index |
| Subject |
Sadomasochism.
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Sadomasochism -- Treatment.
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| Author |
Novick, Kerry Kelly.
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