The taming of solitude : separation anxiety in psychoanalysis / Jean-Michel Quinodoz ; foreword by Hanna Segal ; translated by Philip Slotkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quinodoz, Jean-Michel.

Series:

New library of psychoanalysis ; 20.

New library of psychoanalysis ; 20

Standardized Title:

Solitude apprivoisée. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Psychotherapist and patient.

Separation anxiety.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

English language ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award! Quinodoz brings together views of eminent analysts to present a comprehensive approach to the experience of loneliness, anxiety about which commonly leads people to analysis and which stems from unresolved anxiety about separation.

Contents:

""Book Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""PART ONE Separation anxiety in psychoanalytic practice""; ""1 Separation anxiety in transference phantasies""; ""The two faces of solitude""; ""Separation anxiety: a universal phenomenon""; ""How is separation anxiety manifested?""; ""Between the conscious and the unconscious""; ""Freud, separation and object-loss""; ""Reality and the phantasy of separation and object-loss""; ""Separation anxiety in the analysand2-analyst relationship""; ""From clinical practice to the various theories""; ""Notes""

""2 Separation anxiety illustrated by a clinical example""""The diversity of manifestations of separation anxiety""; ""Meanings of an instance of acting out""; ""Repetition of an infantile psychical trauma""; ""Towards the working through of the Oedipal situation""; ""The link between love and hate in ambivalence""; ""The return of separation anxiety with the approach of the end of the analysis""; ""Being oneself and tolerating solitude""; ""3 Approaches to the interpretation of separation anxiety""; ""Separation and differentiation""; ""Distinguishing for the purpose of unification""

""Separation anxiety and mourning-work""""Losses and gains""; ""At the junction between narcissistic relations and object relations""; ""Separation anxiety and narcissistic disorders""; ""Note""; ""PART ONE Separation anxiety in psychoanalytic practice""; ""4 Freud, separation anxiety and object-loss""; ""1 Separation and object-loss in Freud�s early writings""; ""Infantile dependence and helplessness""; ""Fear of separation as the source of anxiety in the child""; ""The question of primary narcissism""; ""2 �Mounting and melancholia� (1917e [1915])""

""Introjection of the lost object""""Ambiguities in Freud""; ""It is the subject-ego that criticizes the object and not the other way round""; ""Where does the sadism of the superego come from?""; ""Splitting of the ego and disavowal of reality as defences against object-loss""; ""A transference example of introjection of the lost object and of the turning back of hate against oneself""; ""3 Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926d)""; ""Freud and Rank�s The Trauma of Birth""; ""Anxiety as a reaction of the ego to the danger of object-loss""

""The dangers vary according to the time of life""""Repetition, remembering and expectation of the traumatic situation""; ""The relationship between external and internal danger""; ""The affects of anxiety, pain and mourning""; ""Splitting of the ego, Freud�s third theory of anxiety""; ""The influence of Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety""; ""Note""; ""5 The views of Melanie Klein and her school on separation anxiety and object-loss""; ""1 Separation anxiety and object-loss in Melanie Klein""; ""Separation and object-loss in the paranoid-schizoid position and the depressive position""

""The manic defence""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-203) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-134-87433-2

0-203-37638-2

0-203-35962-3

6610048681

1-280-04868-9

1-134-87434-0

9786610048687

9780203359624

OCLC:

922956566