1st Edition
The Uninvited Guest Emerging from Narcissism towards Marriage
By James V. Fisher
Copyright 1999
332 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book brings together a deep thoughtfulness about the insights of psychoanalysis and its application to work with troubled couples with an original and closely argued reading of some classic plays about marriage. It will be of use to readers interested in psychoanalysis and literature.
Foreword -- The Winter's Tale: marriage and re-marriage -- The "false-self" couple: seeking truth and being true -- The gathering of the transference -- Duet for one? Two people or a couple? -- Separations and the capacity to mourn -- That which couples bring to therapy -- Couple stories and couple dreams -- The uninvited guest -- Hell is oneself, the others merely projections -- Making the best of a bad job -- A sado-masochistic folie à deux -- Termination and Othello's version of Eliot's "two ways"
Biography
Fisher, James
