The Taming of Solitude: Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalysis

by Quinodoz,Jean-Michel

• ISBN13: 9780415091541
• ISBN10: 0415091543
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-11-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Beautifully translated from French,The Taming of Solitudebrings together the views of Freud, Klein, Hanna Segal, W. R. D. Fairbairn, D. W. Winnicott, Anna Freud, Margaret Mahler, Heinz Kohut, John Bowlby and others, presenting a comprehensive approach to the experience of loneliness, a universal phenomenon which can be observed in everyday life and in any therapeutic situation. Author Jean-Michel Quinodoz begins by using a clinical example to illustrate how a patient expresses various forms of separation anxiety and how such anxiety can be transformed during the psychoanalytic process. He then examines the major psychoanalytic views on the topic and explores several technical and clinical aspects of the problems which arise from the interpretation of separation anxiety. Finally, Quinodoz introduces the concept, 'buoyancy', to express how a successful working through of separation anxiety can lead to a capacity to 'carry' oneself at the end of analysis. Written with clarityand simplicity,The Taming of Solitudewill be of great interest to all psychoanalysts and therapists.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Hanna Segal
Part One: Separation anxiety in psychoanalytic practice
Separation anxiety in transference phantasies	3	(11)
Separation anxiety illustrated by a clinical example	14	(11)
Approaches to the interpretation of separation anxiety	25	(14)
Part Two: The place of separation anxiety in psychoanalytic theories
Freud, separation anxiety and object-loss	39	(22)
The views of Melanie Klein and her school on separation anxiety and object-loss	61	(24)
The place of separation anxiety and object-loss in the other main psychoanalytic theories	85	(22)
Part Three: Technical considerations
Transference interpretations of separation anxiety	107	(21)
Psychical pain and negative transference	128	(15)
Acting out and separation anxiety	143	(7)
The psychoanalytic setting and the container function	150	(7)
Part Four: The taming of solitude
Termination of the analysis and separation anxiety	157	(9)
The capacity to be alone, buoyancy and the integration of psychical life	166	(22)
Recapitulation and conclusions	188	(6)
Bibliography	194	(10)
Name index	204	(2)
Subject index	206