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Author De Masi, Franco, author.

Title Karl Abraham : at the roots of analytic theory / Franco De Masi
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 87 pages)
Contents About the author -- Introduction -- His life -- A summary of Abraham's most important works -- The Freud-Abraham correspondence -- Abraham's scientific contribution -- The Berlin Psychoanalytics Polyclinic -- What Abraham could not have understood ... -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary "This book describes the life of Karl Abraham, his work in Zurich and Berlin, and his scientific relationship with Freud. Abraham wrote important papers which form the base of clinical psychoanalysis and analytic technique: transference, countertransference, narcissism, envy and childhood trauma. In particular, the book takes into account the contribution Abraham made to understanding the problem of mourning and melancholia, not only through his works dedicated to this topic but also with his contribution within the continuous and scientific communication with Freud, as documented in the Freud-Abraham correspondence (Karnac, 2002). In the final chapter, 'What Abraham could not understand', the book describes how, when Abraham read the manuscript of Mourning and Melancholia, he did not fully understand some passages of Freud's text. He thought for a long time until he could envisage a solution to an unsolved problem - that of the way in which the patient succeeds in overcoming the mourning. This happens when the loved and lost object is reinstalled in his inner world, a very important concept in the Kleinian development."--Provided by publisher
Notes "Originally published in Italian in 2002 by Armando Editore as Karl Abraham : Alle radici della teoria analitica"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-82) and index
Notes Translated from the Italian
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Subject Abraham, Karl, 1877-1925.
Abraham, Karl, 1877-1925
Psychoanalysts -- Germany -- Biography
Psychoanalysis.
psychoanalysis.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Reference.
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysts
Germany
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Parker, Janice, translator
LC no. 2021761355
ISBN 9780429443206
042944320X
9780429811371
0429811373
9780429811364
0429811365