| Description |
xxvi, 243 pages ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
PART I: CHILDHOOD 1 -- Melancholia and mourning in childhood and adolescence: Some reflections on the role of the internal object / Anne Alvarez -- The lost child: Whose is the face in the mirror? / Maria Rhode -- PART II: ADOLESCENCE -- Dying to live: Mourning, melancholia and the adolescent process / Caroline Polmear -- Narcissism -- an adolescent disorder? / Margot Waddell -- Facing towards or turning away from destructive narcissism / Denis Flynn & Helga Skostad -- PART III: ADULTHOOD -- Mourning or melancholia: What's love got to do with it? / Eileen McGinley -- Reconsidering narcissism from a contemporary, complex psychoanalytic view / Stefano Bolognini -- A dehumanizing form of prejudice as part of a narcissistic pathological organisation / Sally Weintrobe -- PART IV: OLD AGE -- Mourning in later years: Developmental perspectives / Arturo Varchevker -- His majesty the ego: The tragic narcissism of King Lear's c̀̀rawl towards death'' / Ken Robinson -- PART V: CULTURE -- States of narcissism / Margaret & Michael Rustin |
| Summary |
This book comprises a selection of papers initially presented as a series of lectures organised by the Psychoanalytic Forum of the British Psychoanalytical Society. The aims of these lectures was to revisit Freud's key papers 'On Narcissism' (1914) and 'Mourning and Melancholia' (1917), and to look at how they are used in today's thinking about the different stages of life. The contributions, by well known clinicians and theoreticians in their respective fields, capture certain important themes which were put together with two main incentives in mind: firstly, to consider that mourning, depression and narcissism constitute the basic fabric of psychoanalytic theorizing. Secondly, the centrality of these concepts not only illustrate a particular way of understanding mental functioning but, by locating them at different stages of the individual development, offers a wider, more effective and at times different perspective |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
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Bereavement -- Psychological aspects.
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Grief.
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Loss (Psychology)
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Psychoanalysis.
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Bereavement.
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Grief.
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Narcissism.
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Psychoanalytic Theory.
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| Author |
McGinley, Eileen.
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Varchevker, Arturo.
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| LC no. |
2012360313 |
| ISBN |
1855756927 |
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9781855756922 |
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