| Description |
1 online resource (293 pages) |
| Series |
Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series ; volume 14 |
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Psychoanalytic inquiry book series ; v. 14.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; I Is Primary Process Primary?; 1 In the Beginning . . .; 2 Freud, Darwin, and Descartes; 3 Affects as Composites; 4 The Search for Primitive Thought; 5 Is Primary Process Primary?; II Affects as Process; 1 The Language of Affectivity; 2 Moods; 3 Lust, Libido, and Love; 4 Contentment, Excitement, and Joy; 5 Fear; 6 Anxiety and Traumatic States; 7 Aggression and Rage; 8 The Prereflective Roots of Shame; 9 Presymbolic Character Structure; 10 The Development of Thought |
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11 Rapprochement12 Object Relations and Object Constancy; 13 Love, Hate, and the Dynamic Unconscious; 14 Thought Dysfunctions; 15 Psychosexual Development and Motivational Systems; 16 Affects and the Self; References; Index |
| Summary |
In this readable meditation on the nature of emotional experience, Joseph Jones takes the reader on a fascinating walking-tour of current research findings bearing on emotional development. Beginning with a nuanced reappraisal of Freud's philosophical premises, he argues that Freud's reliance on ""primary process"" as the means of linking body and mind inadvertantly stripped affects of their process role. Further, the resulting emphasis on fantasy left the problem of conceptualizing the mental life of the prerepresentational infant in a theoretical limbo. Affects as Process</E |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Affect (Psychology)
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Psychoanalysis.
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psychoanalysis.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology.
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Affect (Psychology)
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Psychoanalysis
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134883547 |
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1134883544 |
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