Psychic reality in context : perspectives on psychoanalysis, personal history, and trauma / by Marion Michel Oliner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oliner, Marion Michel, author.

Series:

Psychoanalytic ideas and applications series.

Psychoanalytic ideas and applications series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mind and reality.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychic trauma.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book skillfully combines autobiographical stories with clear psychoanalytical theories. During her childhood, the author experienced the Holocaust and was left understandly traumatised by it. It was her desire to confront this trauma that led her to psychoanalysis. For decades, the coherence of psychoanalysis seemed to be threatened by the conflicting thinking of many psychoanalytical colleagues about trauma and trauma affect, and also about the influence of external reality on the psychic reality discovered by Freud. However, the author counters this potential conflict with her innovative theoretical integration, combined with remarkable conceptual outcomes and treatment techniques. This book spans the author's work over the last fifteen years on the impact of external reality on psychic reality. During this period many analysts, especially in the English-speaking countries and Germany, where historic events loomed large in the lives of their patients, have turned from the exclusive emphasis on psychic reality to greater attention to the traumatic impact of external reality.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS AND APPLICATIONS SERIES; Introduction; Prologue A: Personal reflections on three analyses and their aftermath; Prologue B: Excuse me for having been born: the fate of a German Jew during the Second World War; CHAPTER ONE The role of historic events in treatment; CHAPTER TWO Actual experience, memory, and the assimilation of trauma; CHAPTER THREE The elusive dimension of external reality in psychoanalytic theory; CHAPTER FOUR The limit of omnipotence

CHAPTER FIVE Life is not a dream: the importance of actual perception CHAPTER SIX Conclusion: "The unconscious has eyes and can see"; CHAPTER SEVEN Psychoanalysis from a different angle: "Jacques Lacan: the language of alienation"; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-429-91763-5

0-429-90340-5

0-429-47863-1

1-282-16493-7

9786613808431

1-78241-007-4

9780429478635

OCLC:

815651031