| Description |
xxviii, 289 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Abstinence and the schizoid ego -- Psychopathy and individuation -- The recoil on having another person -- Working with "unwanted" patients -- Breathing and identity -- The significance of the face -- Instinctual fantasy and ideal images -- Creativity, instinctual fantasy, and real images -- Ideal image, creativity, and the Freudian drama -- Soft and hard qualities -- The area of faith in Winnicott, Lacan, and Bion -- Guntrip's analysis with Winnicott -- Breaking the frame: stopping the world -- Dual union or undifferentiation? -- The structure of Freud"s theory of creativity -- Demonized aspects of the self -- Between catastrophe and faith -- Omnipotence -- Mindlessness-selflessness -- Omniscience. |
| Note |
Collection of essays by Michael Eigen, some reprinted from various sources. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Psychoanalysis.
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Emotions.
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Professional-Patient Relations.
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Psychoanalytic Theory.
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Psychoanalytic Therapy -- methods.
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| Added Author |
Phillips, Adam, 1954-
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| ISBN |
0876682948 hardcover : cover |
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