1st Edition

The Matrix of the Mind Object Relations and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue

By Thomas Ogden Copyright 1990
    284 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book contributes to the retrieval of the alienated through the author's own acts of interpretation of ideas introduced by Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Ronald Fairbairn, and Wilfred Bion. It is offered as an act of interpretation.

    Preface -- The Psychoanalytic Dialogue -- Instinct, Phantasy and Psychological Deep Structure in the Work of Melanie Klein -- The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Self as Object -- The Depressive Position and the Birth of the Historical Subject -- Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Position -- Internal Object Relations -- The Mother, the Infant, and the Matrix in the Work of Donald Winnicott -- Potential Space -- Dream Space and Analytic Space

    Biography

    Ogden, Thomas