Immaterial Facts: Freud's Discovery of Psychic Reality and Klein's Development of His Work

by Caper,Robert

• ISBN13: 9780415220842
• ISBN10: 041522084X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-12-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Shows how Melanie Klien's studies of sexuality aggression, unconscious fantasy and identification in children extended and corrected Freud's theories of the development of the superego and early stages of the Oedipus complex.

Author Biography

Dr. Robert Caper is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Centre of California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Preface	xi
Foreword	xiii
Hanna Segal
PART I Freud's Discovery of Psychic Reality	1	(70)
Immaterial Facts	3	(8)
Freud's Early Model of the Mind	5	(1)
Psychic Reality	6	(2)
Psychoanalysis of Children	8	(3)
Psychology without a Psyche	11	(6)
The Seduction Theory	13	(2)
A Scientific Fairy Tale	15	(2)
The Discovery of Unconscious Fantasy	17	(8)
Infantile Sexuality	22	(1)
The Oedipus Complex	23	(1)
The Dynamic Unconscious	24	(1)
The Structure of Dreams and Neurosis	25	(7)
The Meaning of Dreams	26	(3)
Dreams and Neurosis	29	(1)
Repression	29	(3)
Transference and the Crystallization of the Psychoanalytic Method	32	(11)
The Role of Transference in Psychoanalysis	32	(6)
The Crystallization of the Psychoanalytic Method	38	(1)
Free Association	38	(4)
Free-Floating Attention	42	(1)
Gravitational Confinement	43	(4)
The Persistence of Freud's Original Model	44	(1)
The Theory of Libido	45	(2)
A Specimen Case: Little Hans	47	(9)
Case History	47	(6)
Freud at the Midpoint of His Development	53	(3)
Identification and the Structure of the Inner World	56	(5)
Identification	56	(3)
The Structure of the Inner World	59	(2)
Anxiety and the Structure of the Inner World	61	(6)
Abandoning the Libido Theory of Anxiety	61	(2)
A Psychological Theory of Anxiety	63	(4)
Beyond Eros	67	(4)
The Destructive Instinct	67	(4)
PART II Melanie Klein's Development of Freud's Work	71	(82)
Melanie Klein's Place in Psychoanalysis	73	(6)
Freud's Comments on Klein	75	(2)
Opposition and Acceptance	77	(2)
The Method of Child Psychoanalysis	79	(8)
Klein's Approach to the Psychoanalysis of Children	82	(1)
Klein's Technique of Child Analysis	83	(1)
Transference in Children	84	(3)
The Child's Construction of Experience	87	(7)
External Repression	88	(2)
The Child's Internal World	90	(4)
Instinct, Fantasy, and Early Psychic Processes	94	(6)
Fantasy and Instinct	94	(2)
Unconscious Fantasy and External Reality	96	(1)
Fantasy and Psychological Structure	97	(3)
Projective Identification and the Formation of the Inner World	100	(11)
The Formation of the Superego	100	(3)
Splitting and the Early Development of the Internal Object World	103	(2)
The Paranoid-Schizoid Position	105	(1)
Projective Identification	105	(3)
Projective Identification and the Psychoanalysis of Schizophrenia	108	(3)
The Transformation of the Superego: Psychological Integration and Growth	111	(12)
The Depressive Position and the Sense of Reality	115	(2)
Reparation	117	(1)
Manic Defenses and Depressive Illness	117	(4)
Reparation, Creativity, and Normal Psychological Development	121	(2)
The Early Stages of the Oedipus Complex	123	(11)
Oedipal Development of the Boy	127	(2)
Oedipal Development of the Girl	129	(1)
The Kleinian Revision of the Oedipus Complex	130	(4)
Envy and Gratitude, Splitting and Integration	134	(7)
Unconscious Envy and Splitting	136	(3)
Unconscious Gratitude and Integration	139	(2)
Psychoanalytic Knowledge	141	(5)
Therapeutic Knowledge	141	(2)
Theoretical Knowledge	143	(3)
Freud and Klein: A Summary	146	(7)
References	153	(4)
Index	157