| Description |
xv, 228 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
New library of psychoanalysis ; 36 |
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New library of psychoanalysis ; 36
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. The Greening of psychoanalysis -- 3. Psychic reality, negation, and the analytic setting -- 4. The dead mother syndrome and the reconstruction of trauma -- 5. Dead Mother, dead child -- 6. The undead: necromancy and the inner world -- 7. Analysing forms of aliveness and deadness of the transference-contertransference -- 8. The dead mother: variations on a theme -- 9. Taking aims -- Andre Green and the pragmatics of passion -- 10. The interplay of identifications: violence, hysteria, and the repudiation of femininity -- 11. The dynamics of the history of psychoanalysis -- Anna Freud, Leo Rangell, and Andre Green -- 12. The intuition of the negative in playing and reality -- Biographical Notes |
| Summary |
"The Dead Mother brings together original essays in honour of André Green. Written by distinguished psychoanalysts, the collection develops the theme of his most famous paper of the same title, and describes the value of the dead mother to other areas of clinical interest: psychic reality, borderline phenomena, passions and identification."--Publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Green, André.
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Depression, Mental.
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Grief.
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Loss (Psychology)
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Psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalytic Interpretation.
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Grief.
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Mental Disorders -- etiology.
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Mother-Child Relations.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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| Author |
Kohon, Gregorio, 1943-
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| LC no. |
99012420 |
| ISBN |
0415165288 hardback |
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0415165296 paperback |
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9780415165280 hardback |
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9780415165297 paperback |
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