Between Freud and Klein

by Limentani, Adam; Kernberg, Otto F.

• ISBN13: 9781855751453
• ISBN10: 1855751453
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: KARNAC BOOKS

Summary

This book shows how important it is to take different theories and frameworks into account in order to understand the complexity of psychoanalytic phenomena. It is about observing and asking questions, and is less a textbook, but rather an intimate insight to the author's quest for truth and understanding.

Table of Contents

Foreword to this edition	xi
Harold Maxwell
Foreword	xiii
Otto F. Kernberg
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction	1	(4)
Between Freud and Klein	5	(13)
The Orpheus myth as reflected in problems of ambivalence and reparation in the oedipal situation	18	(17)
A re-evaluation of acting out in relation to working through	35	(15)
The assessment of analysability: a major hazard in selection for psychoanalysis	50	(23)
The training analyst and the difficulties associated with psychoanalytic training	73	(15)
Object choice and bisexuality	88	(14)
Clinical types of homosexuality	102	(12)
Affects and the psychoanalytic situation	114	(19)
The significance of transsexualism in relation to some basic psychoanalytic concepts	133	(22)
On some positive aspects of the negative therapeutic reaction	155	(18)
From denial to self-awareness: a 20 years' study of childhood delinquency evolving into adult neurosis	173	(18)
To the limits of male heterosexuality: the vagina-man	191	(13)
On some aspects of human violence	204	(11)
On the psychodynamics of drug dependence	215	(15)
Perversions: treatable and untreatable	230	(20)
Variations on some Freudian themes	250	(14)
Bibliography	264	(13)
Index	277