The telescoping of generations : listening to the narcissistic links between generations / Haydée Faimberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faimberg, Haydée.

Series:

New library of psychoanalysis (Unnumbered)

The new library of psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narcissism.

Intergenerational relations.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xii, 156 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Summary:

The Telescoping of Generations is an original perspective on the transmission of narcissistic links between generations. This attention to unconscious transmission gives fresh understanding of the psychic consequences of experiences such as genocide and terrorism.

Reviving classic psychoanalytical concepts with fresh meaning, Haydee Faimberg demonstrates how narcissistic links that pass between generations can be unfolded in the intimacy of the session, through engagement with the patient's private language. The surprising clinical cases described in this book led the author to recognize the analyst's narcissistic resistances to hearing what the patient does say, and what the patient cannot say. She goes on to explore the value of hearing how the patient listens to both interpretations and silence: to study family secrets and to reinterpret the Oedipus myth.

The Telescoping of Generations is cogent both with regard to clinical practice and on a broader front. Psychoanalysts and psychotherapists treating adults and children, family therapists and those with an interest in cultural studies will all find it relevant to their work.

Contents:

1 The telescoping of generations: A genealogy of alienated identifications (1981/1985) 4

2 'Listening to listening': An approach to the study of narcissistic resistances (1981) 19

3 Repetition and surprise: Construction and its validation (1989) (written with Antoine Corel) 31

4 The countertransference position and the countertransference (1989) 42

5 The narcissistic dimension of the Oedipal configuration (1993) 50

6 The Oedipus myth revisited (1993) 63

7 'Listening to listening' and apres-coup (1993) 76

8 Misunderstanding and psychic truths (1995) 87

9 Narcissistic discourse as a resistance to psychoanalytical listening: A classic submitted to the test of idolatry (2001) 101

10 Apres-coup: Revisiting what has been read 108

11 'The Snark was a Boojum': Reading Lewis Carroll (1977) 117.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-143) and index.

ISBN:

1583917527

1583917535

OCLC:

56590780