| Description |
xiii, 188 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Resurrecting the Unconscious in Contemporary Psychoanalysis / Karen Lombardi -- 2. Dialogues of the Unconscious / Naomi Rucker and Karen Lombardi -- 3. Sounds of Silence: Parallel Dreaming and the Mutual Dream / Karen Lombardi and Naomi Rucker -- 4. The Unconscious Catch in Psychoanalytic Supervision / Naomi Rucker and Karen Lombardi -- 5. The Mutual Creation of Temporal Experience / Karen Lombardi -- 6. The Prenatal Anlage of Psychic Life / Naomi Rucker -- 7. Subject Relations as Seen through Prenatal Observation / Karen Lombardi -- 8. Mother As Object, Mother As Subject / Karen Lombardi -- 9. Intimate Subjects / Naomi Rucker -- 10. Words to the Wise on the Wisdom in Subject Relations / Naomi Rucker -- 11. The Political and the Personal: Cultural Expressions of Identification and Disidentification / Karen Lombardi and Naomi Rucker -- Appendix. A Summary of Selected Constructs from Matte-Blanco's Model of the Unconscious as Infinite Sets |
| Summary |
A revolution is occurring across the intellectual landscape: linear, causational models are yielding to models that stress relativism and interactionism. In Subject Relations, this paradigm shift is applied to psychoanalysis. Traditional psychoanalysis views relationships as forged through individual drives - a satisfaction and fulfillment of needs and desires. Rucker and Lombardi contend, however, that all relationships cannot be explained so simply; rather, they argue that human relationships carry meanings which cannot be reduced solely to the psychic contributions of each of the individuals involved. Instead, Subject Relations discusses the existence of a related unconscious rooted in mutual subjective experience |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-177) and indexes |
| Subject |
Psychoanalysis.
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| Author |
Lombardi, Karen L., 1945-
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| LC no. |
97016984 |
| ISBN |
0415914221 (alk. paper) |
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041591423X (paperback: alk. paper) |
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