Ronald Britton (in private practice, London, UK)

Belief and Imagination

Explorations in Psychoanalysis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award!Brings together Ronald Britton's writing on the subject of belief and imagination over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective and examining the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing.

Produktdetails

• The New Library of Psychoanalysis
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 162mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9780415194389
• ISBN-10: 0415194385
• Artikelnr.: 21695700

Autorenporträt

Ronald Britton is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London, and a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Introduction. Belief and Psychic Reality. Naming and
Containing. Oedipus in the Depressive Position. Subjectivity, Objectivity
and Triangular Space. The Suspension of Belief and the 'As-if' Syndrome.
Before and After the Depressive Position. Complacency in Analysis and
Everyday Life. The Analust's Intuition: Selected Fact or Overvalued Idea?
Daydream, Phantasy and Fiction. The Other Room and Poetic Space.
Wordsworth: The Loss of Presence and the Presence of Loss. Existential
Anxiety: Rilke's Duino Elegies. Milton's Destructive Narcissist or Blake's
True Self? William Blake and Epistemic Narcissism. Publication Anxiety.
References. Index.