1st Edition

On Freud's ''Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning''

Edited By Gabriela Legorreta, Lawrence J. Brown Copyright 2016
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

This book is a collection of papers by leading contemporary psychoanalysts who comment on the continuing important relevance of Freud's (1911) paper, Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning . The contributors gathered here represent current European, Latin American, and North American perspectives that elaborate the continuing value of Two Principles for present-day... Read more
Contemporary Freud , Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning (1911b) , Editor’s Note , Discussion of “Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning” , Filling in Freud and Klein’s maps of psychotic states of mind: Wilfred Bion’s reading of Freud’s “Formulations regarding two principles in mental functioning” , The world as it is vs. the world as I would like it to be: contemporary reflections on Freud’s “Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning” , Second thoughts on Freud’s “Two principles” , Dreaming the analytical session: between pleasure principle and reality principle , Where does the reality principle begin? The work of margins in Freud’s “Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning” , Freud’s “Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning”: its roots and development , Two principles and the possibility of emotional growth , Time is short , The quest for the real , Mental functioning and free thinking , Concluding thoughts

Biography

Gabriela Legorreta, Lawrence J Brown