Full Description
This long-awaited text makes accessible the ideas of one of the most important thinkers of our time, as well as indicating how Freud's theories are put into clinical practice today. The collection of papers has been written by some of the most eminent psychoanalysts, who have made original contributions to the field. Each chapter introduces one of Freud's key ideas, and links it to contemporary thinking in psychoanalysis. The book combines a deep understanding of Freud's work with some of the most modern debates surrounding it. The book will be of great value across a wide spectrum of courses in psychoanalysis, as well as to scholars interested in psychoanalytic ideas.
Contents
Acknowledgements. Contributors. Introduction, Rosine Jozef Perelberg. Part I: The Early Phase. Anna O: The First Case, Revisited and Revised, Ronald Britton. Part II: The Second Phase: The Birth of Psychoanalysis. Dora. Fragment of an Analysis of Hysteria, Monique Cournut-Janin. The Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy, Jane Temperley. On Narcissism, Rosine Jozef Perelberg. Part III: Metapsychology. Clinical Observation, Theoretical Construction, Metapsychological Thought, Jean-Claude Rolland. The Unconscious, Luiz Eduardo Prado de Oliveira. The Wound, the Bow and the Shadow of the Object: Notes on Freud's 'Mourning and Melancholia', Ignes Sodre. Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Gilbert Diatkine. Part IV: The Structural Model of the Mind. Towards the Structural Model of the Mind, Margaret Tonnesmann. Part V: Some Further Clinical Cases. Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis, Paul Williams. Gaze, Dominance and Humiliation in the Schreber Case, John Steiner. Unconscious Phantasy and Apres-coup: 'From the History of an Infantile Neurosis' (the Wolf Man), Rosine Jozef Perelberg. Clinical and Metapsychological Reflections on 'A Child is Being Beaten', Catherine Chabert. The Psychogenesis of a Case of Female Homosexuality, Susan Budd. Part VI: Later Papers. Negation, Andre Green. Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defense, Donald Campbell. Index.
