1st Edition
Difficult Identities The Work of Identity in Human Life
By Pia De Silvestris
Copyright 2018
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Every human being about to be born is loaned a provisional identity. This identity is embodied in the name they are given, as an invention, internal need, or generational obligation, parental fantasy or delusion. Both the person receiving and the person bestowing the name—and, with it, the provisional identity—are unaware of all this.
Interweaving theoretical reflections and clinical... Read more
ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION -- PREFACE by Maria Luisa Algini -- INTRODUCTION by Maurizio Balsamo -- CHAPTER ONE Difficult identity -- CHAPTER TWO Interminable illusion -- CHAPTER THREE -- Identity: internal objects and the superego CHAPTER FOUR -- Identity: from oedipal vicissitudes to adolescence -- CHAPTER FIVE -- The laborious integration of the body image in adolescence
Biography
Pia De Silvestris is a psychotherapist who lives and practises in Rome. She is a full member of the Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Couples (SIPsIA) and the Italian Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (SIPP), and teaches on the training programmes of both societies. She has published widely in psychoanalytic journals, and has co-authored several books in Italian, among which are Transference in Child Psychoanalysis (1994); Childhood Depression (1997); Transcribing the Unconscious (2002); Awareness and Self-Analysis (2005).
