The surviving object : psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object / Jan Abram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abram, Jan, author.

Series:

New library of psychoanalysis

The new library of psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Winnicott, D. W. (Donald Woods), 1896-1971.

Winnicott, D. W.

Object relations (Psychoanalysis).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Jan Abram is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Visiting Professor of the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College, London. She is Vice President of the European Psychoanalytic Federation. She has published several books and articles notably: The Language of Winnicott (1st edition 1996; 2nd edition 2007), Outstanding Academic Book of the year (1997); Donald Winnicott Today (2013); The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott: comparisons and dialogues (2018 with co-author R.D. Hinshelwood).

Summary:

In this book, Abram proposes and elaborates the dual concept of an intrapsychic surviving and non surviving object and examines how psychic survival-of-the-object places the early m/Other at the centre of the nascent psyche before innate factors are relevant. Abram's clinical-theoretical elaborations advance several of Winnicott's key concepts. Moreover, the clinical illustrations show how her advances arise out of the transference-countertransference matrix of the analyzing situation. Chapter by chapter the reader witnesses the evolution of her proposals that not only enhance an appreciation of Winnicott's original clinical paradigm but also demonstrate how much more there is to glean from his texts especially in the contemporary consulting room. The Surviving Object comprises 8 chapters covering themes such as: the incommunicado self; violation of the self; the paradox of communication; terror at the roots of non survival; an implicit theory of desire; the fear of WOMAN underlying misogyny; the meaning of infantile sexuality; the father in the nursing mother's mind' as an integrate' in the nascent psyche; formlessness preceding integration; a theory of madness. The volume will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically-informed psychotherapists of all levels who are inspired by clinical psychoanalysis and the study of human nature.

Notes:

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 25, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781000440454

1000440451

9781003207504

1003207502

9781000440478

1000440478

OCLC:

1265084369