Psychoanalysis, Literature and War: Papers 1972-1995

by Segal,Hanna

• ISBN13: 9780415153294
• ISBN10: 0415153298
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-01-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Many of the themes which were elaborated in Hanna Segal's earlier work return in this volume of her most recent papers. Two act as connecting strands and give the book its unity: the clinical usefulness of the concept of the death instinct and the relationship between fantasy and reality. A past mistress at capturing the vitality of the clinical session on the page, Segal shows how the same conflicts between life and death instincts, fantasy and reality, are experienced in the consulting room, reflected in literature, and played out by nations in their attitudes to war.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Steiner, Introduction

Clinical Psychoanalysis

On the Clinical Usefulness of the Concept of Death Instinct

Phantasy and Reality

On Symbolism

A Delusional System as a Defence Against the Re-emergence of a Catastrophic Situation

Early Infantile Development as Reflected in the Psychoanalytical Process: Steps in Integration

Some Clinical Implications of Melanie Klein's Work: Emergence from Narcissism

Paranoid Anxiety and Paranoia

Termination: Sweating it Out

The Uses and Abuses of Counter-transference

Literature and Politics

Joseph Conrad and the Mid-life Crisis

Salman Rushdie and the Sea of Stories: A Not So Simple Fable About Creativity

Silence is the Real Crime

From Hiroshima to the Gulf War and After: Socio-political Expressions of Ambivalence

References

Name Index

Subject Index

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