1st Edition
Psychic Reality in Context Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History, and Trauma
By Marion Michel Oliner
Copyright 2012
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book skillfully combines autobiographical stories with clear psychoanalytical theories. During her childhood, the author experienced the Holocaust and was left understandly traumatised by it. It was her desire to confront this trauma that led her to psychoanalysis. For decades, the coherence of psychoanalysis seemed to be threatened by the conflicting thinking of many psychoanalytical... Read more
Series Editor’s Preface: Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series , Introduction , Prologue A: Personal reflections on three analyses and their aftermath , Prologue B: Excuse me for having been born: the fate of a German Jew during the Second World War 1 , The role of historic events in treatment 1 , Actual experience, memory, and the assimilation of trauma , The elusive dimension of external reality in psychoanalytic theory , The limit of omnipotence , Life is not a dream: the importance of actual perception 1 , Conclusion: “The unconscious has eyes and can see” 1 , Psychoanalysis from a different angle: “Jacques Lacan: the language of alienation” *
Biography
Marion Michel Oliner
