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Author Poland, Warren S., author.

Title Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis / Warren S. Poland ; edited and introduced by William F. Cornell ; with a preface by Nancy Chodorow
Edition First edition
Published Oxon : Routledge, 2017

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Contents Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis- Front Cover -- Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface: Warren Poland â#x80;#x93; humanist, ethicist, friend -- Acknowledgments -- Reference -- Editorâ#x80;#x99;s introduction: a freedom of mind â#x80;#x93; Warren Poland in word and deed -- The writer and the reader -- The analytic approach -- The therapeutic attitude -- Witnessing -- Encountering strangers -- Encountering darkness -- In life and in death -- References -- PART I: Opening conclusions
Chapter 1: Regarding the otherRegarding the other -- Concluding reflections en route -- References -- Chapter 2: Rather my own shortcomings -- From visual art to psychoanalysis -- All this and Freud too -- References -- PART II: The psychoanalytic situation -- Chapter 3: The analystâ#x80;#x99;s witnessing and otherness -- Definition -- Illustration -- Witnessing and the analytic process -- Self-definition and otherness -- Intersubjectivity -- The other and self-definition -- In closing -- References -- Chapter 4: Outsiderness in human nature -- Definition
Appearance across life stagesClinical illustration -- Analytic process as specimen -- Outsiderness in human nature -- Curiosity -- Outsiderness and context -- In closing -- References -- Chapter 5: The interpretive attitude -- Shifting estimations of interpretation -- Declarative interpretations and the interpretive attitude -- Procedural and declarative memories -- Clinical illustration -- The place of interpretation and the past -- In closing -- References -- Chapter 6: The analystâ#x80;#x99;s approach and the patientâ#x80;#x99;s psychic growth -- Introduction
Clinical illustrationOrigins of the psychoanalytic way of thinking -- The patient and the analystâ#x80;#x99;s mind -- The analytic approach -- The approach to the approach -- In closing -- References -- Chapter 7: The analystâ#x80;#x99;s fears -- Introduction -- Clinical illustrations -- Discussion -- Certainty and theory -- References -- PART III: Challenges within the psychoanalytic process -- Chapter 8: Problems in pluralism: narcissism and curiosity -- Human structural limits -- Human frailties -- Problems related to group dynamics -- Problems of radical schools
Narcissism and curiosityReferences -- Chapter 9: On immediacy: â#x80;#x9C;vivid contrast between past and presentâ#x80;#x9D; -- References -- Chapter 10: The limits of empathy -- Misapplications of empathy -- Structural problems with the concept of empathy -- In closing -- References -- Chapter 11: Beyond bedrock: the trap of abandoning psychology -- References -- Chapter 12: Oedipal complexes, oedipal schema -- How we got here -- References -- PART IV: Beyond the clinical setting
Summary "Clinical psychoanalysis serves as our best laboratory for exploring the riddle of what it is to be a person, and how a person is at once singularly unique while always a piece of the interpersonal fabric of humanity. In Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis, Warren Poland casts a freshly erudite eye on this paradox, resisting individual or intersubjective bias and avoiding the parochial allegiances common in our age of pluralism. Poland combines vivid reports from clinical analyses, literary readings, and his own life - all unfolding original observations on a person as both a part of and apart from human commonality. His consideration of how one person's witnessing facilitates another's self-definition, a concept extended here in his study of outsiderness as part of human nature, has been marked a keynote contribution. Clinical illustrations of moments that matter but are usually omitted from public presentation are set alongside examples of reading powerful fiction to show how analyst and author both incite fresh openness in a person's mind. Poland goes farther, exposing the personal power of union and separateness in its keenest form, facing the ultimate separation of one's own actual death. Only with separateness can true intimacy grow, and only within the fabric of others can true individuality exist. This evocative book, ranging from the lightness of whimsy to the dread of dying, allows every reader to taste of and learn from Poland's thinking. Psychoanalyst or patient, writer or reader, each one living one's own life - all can find new understandings in this work."--Provided by publisher
Subject Psychoanalysis.
psychoanalysis.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Reference.
Psychoanalysis
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315104720
1315104725
9781351598958
1351598953