1st Edition
Symbiosis and Ambiguity A Psychoanalytic Study
Etchegoyen, Preface. Bleger, Churcher, Editorial Introduction. Prologue. Part I: On Symbiosis. Study of Dependence-Independence in Relation to the Process of Projection-Introjection. Symbiosis in Warrior’s Rest. Modalities of Object Relations. Study of the Psychotic Part of the Personality. Part II: On Ambiguity. Ambiguity in Psychoanalytic Clinical Work. Psychoanalysis of The Psychoanalytic Setting. Part III: Appendix. Ambivalence and Ambiguity: The Background Literature. Commentary on ‘The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words'. Ambiguity and Syncretism in Freud’s ‘The "Uncanny"’.
Biography
José Bleger was born in Argentina in 1922. An active member of the Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina, he was also a highly-regarded Professor of Psychology and a well known intellectual. Author of many books and papers, his reputation grew steadily after his early death in 1972. He is now considered a major figure of Argentinian psychoanalysis.
John Churcher is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Manchester, and a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Until 2002 he was a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Manchester.
Leopoldo Bleger, born in Argentina, has lived in Paris since 1976. A Training Analyst of the Association Psychanalytique de France, he is currently General Secretary of the European Federation of Psychoanalysis.
