Ronald Britton

Sex, Death, and the Superego (eBook, PDF)

Updating Psychoanalytic Experience and Developments in Neuroscience

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition of Ronald Britton's personal reappraisal of psychoanalytic theories is based on further clinical experience, further study of current neuroscience and continued reflection on the relationship of brain and mind, selfhood and self-awareness, belief and knowledge, and certainty and uncertainty.

Divided into three parts - "Hysteria," "The ego and superego," and "Narcissism" - this new edition adds content on brain, mind and self, the death instinct and a discussion on the biological, psychological and sociological basis of gender. It suggests that our increasing knowledge necessarily produces a dissolution of our coherent concepts of mind and brain, and that during this phase of creative dissolution we need to reassess what we know and what we don't know. Fundamental to the book is the notion that human beings have to live with probability but that we long for certainty, and create it for ourselves.

This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in clinical practice and academia, as well as other mental health professionals and those with an interest in psychoanalytic theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000176506
• Artikelnr.: 60025972

Autorenporträt

Ronald Britton trained in neurology, child and adult psychiatry, and psychoanalysis before becoming Chair of the Children's Department at the Tavistock Clinic and President of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He received the "IPA Outstanding Scientific Award 2013" and the 2013 Sigourney Award for "Outstanding Achievements in Psychoanalysis". His particular interests outside psychoanalysis have been literature, philosophy and physics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PS(n+1)
Part 1: Hysteria
1. Hysteria I: Anna O: getting in on the act
2. Hysteria II: Sabina Spielrein, sex, death and psychoanalysis
Afterthoughts: on the concept of the death instinct
3. The erotic counter-transference
4. Phallic idealisation in women
Afterthoughts: on sex and gender
Part 2: The ego and the superego
5. The concept of the ego
6. Emancipation of the superego
7. An "internal saboteur" masquerading as a superego
8. Humour and the superego
Part 3: Narcissism
9. Libidinal and destructive narcissism
10. Narcissistic problems in sharing space
11. PS(n+1): Brain, mind and self