1st Edition

Birth to Psychic Life

By Albert Ciccone, Marc Lhopital Copyright 2022
428 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

428 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

428 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Based on rich clinical experience and on theory from numerous psychoanalytical works, this book explores and analyzes the emergence and development of the psychic life. Birth to Psychic Life explores the genesis of the psychic apparatus, reconstructs the development of subjectivity, with its ups and downs in babies as in all subjects, and studies the relationship between mental states at the... Read more

Introduction  Part 1: 1. Introjection and its Relations to the Construction of the Psychical Apparatus  2. The First Containing External Object: the Momentary Object  Part 2: 3. The Optimal Containing Object  4. Psychic Space  Part 3: 5. On Adhesive Identification: Genesis of the Psychic Skin  6. On Symbiosis: a Common Skin  7. On the Skin-ego: a Complete Psychic Envelope  8. Conclusion: Psychic Birth and Psychopathological Deviations  Part 4: 9. Splitting and Idealization: the Life Drives/Death Drives Duality  10. The Genesis and Development of Thought-Activity  Part 5: 11. Projective Identification: Definition and Description  12. Projective Identification: Motives, Consequences, Phenomenology  Part 6: 13. The Inadequacies of the Containing object  14. Phantasied Attacks on the Object  15. "Second Skin" Formation

Biography

Albert Ciccone is a psychologist, psychoanalyst amd professor of psychopathology and clinical psychology at the Université Lumière-Lyon 2. France. He is also founder and president of the Association lyonnaise pour une psychanalyse à partir de la clinique de l’enfant (ALPACE).

Marc Lhopital is a psychoanalyst, member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society (IPA), France; clinical psychologist and member of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (SEPEA).