1st Edition

Intimacy and Alienation Forms of Estrangement in Female/Male Relationships

By Arthur G. Neal, Sara F. Collas Copyright 2000
    228 Pages
    by Routledge

    228 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2000. Intimacy and Alienation is an examination of contemporary male/female relationships. The authors present a conceptual framework for the types and degrees of estrangement that are present in intimate relationships.

    Foreword by Thomas Ogden Acknowledgements 1. The Self in Conversation I: Self and Development 2. I, Me, Myself 3. Conversational Play 4. Two Forms of Human Conversation 5. Memory II: The Trauma System 6. Uncoupled Consciousness 7. Disrupted Maturation: The Dissolution Hypothesis 8. A Theory of Value 9. Feeling Creates Reality 10. Malignant Internalisation 11. The Evocative Context 12. Priming and Projective Identification: On Being Constructed 13. Satellites of Trauma III. Integration 14. Transforming the Chronicle 15. Flights & Perchings Epilogue 16. The Death of Narcissus Footnotes References

    Biography

    Arthur G. Neal, Sara F.Collas