1st Edition
Identity, Narcissism, and the Other Object Relations and their Obstacles
By Jean Arundale
Copyright 2017
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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Practitioners of psychoanalysis find three central themes to be recurrent and ubiquitous in every analysis; firstly, issues around identity, the struggle to know the self, to understand the self and to be the self in an authentic way. Intricately entangled with self-identity is the problem of narcissism, essentially viewed as a defensive retreat to a mental state characterized by an unconscious... Read more
Introduction , The way to identity: an auspicious method? , Otherness and the other , Narcissism and unconscious phantasy , From omnipotence to ordinary potency and identity , Non-consummation: a narcissistic organisation , The other as alien: psychic atopia , Sexuality in psychoanalysis , Negative therapeutic reaction re-examined , Symbol formation and dreams: the art of Odilon Redon , Dreams as access to the primal scene , Arrested development: notes on a case of paedophilia
Biography
Jean Arundale
