Belief and imagination : explorations in psychoanalysis / Ronald Britton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Britton, Ronald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Klein, Melanie.

Belief and doubt.

Imagination.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 226 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award! Brings together Ronald Britton's writing on the subject of belief and imagination over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective and examining the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing.

Contents:

chapter 1 Belief and psychic reality

chapter 2 Naming and containing

chapter 3 Oedipus in the depressive position

chapter 4 Subjectivity, objectivity and triangular space

chapter 5 The suspension of belief and the as-if syndrome

chapter 6 Before and after the depressive position: Ps(n)?D(n)?Ps(n+1)

chapter 7 Complacency in analysis and everyday life

chapter 8 The analyst's intuition: selected fact or overvalued idea?

chapter 9 Daydream, phantasy and fiction

chapter 10 The other room and poetic space

chapter 11 Wordsworth: the loss of presence and the presence of loss

chapter 12 Existential anxiety: Rilke's Duino Elegies

chapter 13 Milton's destructive narcissist or Blake's true self?

chapter 14 William Blake and epistemic narcissism

chapter 15 Publication anxiety.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-64914-2

9786610023776

0-203-36081-8

1-134-64915-0

1-280-02377-5

0-415-19437-7

9780203360811

OCLC:

54446882