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Author Speziale-Bagliacca, Roberto

Title Guilt : Revenge, Remorse and Responsibility After Freud
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Contents Cover; Guilt; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; After re-reading: a preface; Chapter 1; A view from the past; The function of the analyst; Guilt and sin; Guilt and revenge; Chapter 2; The use and abuse of theory; The two types of guilt; A criticism; The Erinyes and Resentment; Persecution and omnipotence; The Child is Father of the Man; Chapter 3; The ""schizophrenic paradox'': two types of logic; Anatomy of the ethos of guilt; The ethos of guilt and how to overcome it; Guilt as signal; Manichaean ethos and creativity; Approaches to guilt; Chapter 4
The search for a namePreparing the ground for a dispute; Melanie Klein as seen by Winnicott; "". . . you should meet Melanie Klein''; ""Pining'', ""concern'', and ""responsibility''; Chapter 5; Responsibility; A letter to one's analyst; Arguing ""ad hominem""; A responsible rejection; Chapter 6; The dilating pupil: counter-transference; The mirror-analyst: first cracks; The patient's criticisms; Chapter 7; The devil with breasts: an interlude; Chapter 8; Ideology and guilt; The nourishing father; Accepting and containing; Chapter 9; The double bind and guilt; Codes and guilt; King Solomon
Chapter 10The preconscious and consciousness; Containment; The containing mind; Holding; Chapter 11; Projective identification and containment; Attention and guilt; Guilt and atmosphere; Conclusions; Appendix: a note on terms; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index
Summary Guilt is an original, closely argued examination of the opposition between guilty man and tragic man. Starting from the scientific and speculative writings of Freud and the major pioneers of psychoanalysis to whom we owe the first studies of this complex question, Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca goes on to focus on the debate between Klein and Winnicott in an enlightened attempt to remove blame and the sense of guilt from religion, morality and law. Drawing on an impressive range of sources - literary, historical and philosophical - and illustrated by studies of composers, thinkers
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ISBN 9781135444310
1135444315