1st Edition

Unconscious Phantasy

By Riccardo Steiner Copyright 2003
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

'There is no doubt that "phantasy" or "unconscious phantasy", as it started to be used in the English translation of Freud's work in the late 1920s and 1930s to differentiate it from "fantasy", is one of the most important theoretical and clinical concepts of psychoanalysis.'- Riccardo Steiner, from the IntroductionIn this outstanding new collection, the vital concept of unconscious phantasy is... Read more
Introduction , Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning , Phantasy and its transformations: a contemporary Freudian view , Do unconscious phantasies really exist? 1 , Fantasy and the origins of sexuality 1 , The nature and function of phantasy , Phantasy and reality , Imagination, play and art

Biography

Riccardo Steiner