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The Unsung Psychoanalyst
While there are many books on psychoanalysis, few address what it is like to live one's life as a psychoanalyst.The Unsung Psychoanalystfocuses on the challenges, tragedies, and rewards of a psychoanalytic life using as an example the pioneering and prescient Canadian analyst Ruth Easser (1922?1975). Gifted as a clinician and teacher, Easser had a formative influence in New York and Toronto on a generation of psychoanalysts, many of whom are today's leaders in the field.
Based on interviews with more than thirty of Easser's teachers, colleagues, students, analysands, family and friends, and a review of her papers, Mary Kay O'Neil builds a portrait of life as a psychoanalyst. The author traces as well some of the developments of psychoanalytic thought during the past fifty years.
The Unsung Psychoanalysttouches on the founding and growth of New York's Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and on the development of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and Institute where Easser taught during the last five years of her life.
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On Freud's \Negation\
Ever since Freud proposed that certain ideas can be permitted to become conscious only in their inverted and negative forms, interest has grown into the entire realm of the presence of absence, so to speak. Or, perhaps, it is better to term such mental contents as the presence in the form of absence. These two ways of conceptualizing Freud's negation have led to a panoply of ideas that include negative hallucination, psychic holes, negative narcissism, selfishly motivated erasure of the Other, and the so-called \"work of the negative\". This volume elucidates these concepts and refines the distinction between Freud's negation and subsequently described mental mechanisms of denial, repudiation, isolation, and undoing. The book also provides contemporary perspectives on the developmental underpinnings of negation and the technical usefulness of the concept, including its implicit role in negative therapeutic reactions. A thought-provoking and conceptually illuminating volume.
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On Freud's \The Future of an Illusion\
\"The Future of an Illusion\" reveals Freud's reflections about religion as well as his hope that in the future science will go beyond religion, and reason will replace faith in God. The discussion with an imaginary critic revealed his internal debate, mirroring the debate about this subject in the outside world. However, it also enlightens his way of thinking: deconstructing and constructing at the same time. This volume considers Freudian ideas and their implications today, while focusing on the contradictions and gaps in Freud's proposals. The question of the coexistence between religion and psychoanalysis, as well as the place of ideals, belief, illusion, and imagination - and, no less important, the benevolent and destructive aspects of religion - also come into play.
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Autonomy and womanhood
This chapter highlights what single case studies from the author's clinical and research experience can contribute to the psychoanalytic understanding of the development of a woman's autonomous self. It discusses Freud's challenge to try to understand women beyond their sexual function by addressing key aspects of autonomy: motherhood and womanhood. The concept of the autonomous self is not discretely defined within psychoanalytic theory. Autonomy, one attribute of the self, includes the partially overlapping concepts of sense of identity, separation-individuation, narcissism, attachment, and object relations. Gwen had achieved all external manifestations of separation-individuation, maturity, and autonomy. The development of autonomy is only part of self development. Freud, having described \"women in so far as their nature is determined by their sexual function\", commented that \"an individual woman may be a human being in other respects\". Autonomy is both intrapsychic and inter-subjective. As a final note, true autonomy eventually must include reciprocal relationships: the capacity to love in individualized form.
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Hopelessness
Hope is the most reliable sustainer of life. It offers the promise of something good in the future, contributes to resilience, and keeps one going. However, there are circumstances when hope dries up. This book seeks to map out such dark terrain of hopelessness. While it allows for the fact that a modicum of hopelessness might help in reducing infantile omnipotence and curtailing fixation on unrealistic goals, its focus is upon severe and clinically significant shades of hopelessness. The book opens with a broad overview of the nature, developmental origins, and technical implications of hope and hopelessness, and closes with a thoughtful summary, synthesis, and critique of the intervening essays; this summary forges both theoretically and technically significant links between the experiences of helplessness and hopelessness. Sandwiched between these opening and closing commentaries are nine essays which address the ontogenetic trajectory, phenomenological variations, cultural and literary portrayals, and clinical ramifications of sustained hopelessness.
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On Freud’s “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”
Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle constitutes a major landmark and a real turning point in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory. Pushing aside the primacy of the tension-discharge-gratification model of mental dynamics, this work introduced the notion of a \"daemonic force\" within all human beings that slowly but insistently seeks psychic inactivity, inertia, and death. Politely dismissed by some as a pseudo-biological speculation and rapturously espoused by others as a bold conceptual advance, \"death instinct\" became a stepping stone to the latter conceptualizations of mind's attacks on itself, negative narcissism, addiction to near-death, and the utter destruction of meaning in some clinical situations. The concept also served as a bridge between the quintessentially Western psychoanalysis and the Eastern perspectives on life and death. These diverse and rich connotations of the proposal are elucidated in On Freud's \"Beyond the Pleasure Principle\". Other consequences of Freud's 1920 paper - namely, the marginalization of ego instincts and the \"upgrading\" of aggression in the scheme of things - are also addressed.
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On Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Freud's \"Beyond the Pleasure Principle\" constitutes a major landmark and a real turning point in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory. This work introduces the notion of a 'deamonic force' within all human beings that slowly but insistently seeks psychic inactivity, inertia, and death.
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