On being one's self : clinical explorations in identity from John Steiner's workshop
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On being one's self : clinical explorations in identity from John Steiner's workshop
(New library of psychoanalysis)
Routledge, 2023
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Steiner is a key figure in contemporary Kleinian circles * Identity is a key topic throughout psychoanalysis * Includes contributions from internationally renowned analysts
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. An Outline of the Kleinian Model of the Mind and its Implications for the Understanding of Personal Identity 2. Identification and Pathological Identification: Implications for Identity 3. The Cerebral Mind versus the Body Mind: Containing and Recovering Unknown Parts of the Self 4. Orientation, Disorientation and Identity Development: an Illustration from Dante's Divine Comedy 5. A Mind of One's Own: the Growth of Identity in an Adult Patient 6. Failure to Mourn: Idealization, Illusion and Identity 7. Identity and the Struggle to "be" in the Face of Distorting Projections from an Ill Object 8. A Lost Child: the Failure to Develop an Identity 9. Forming an Identity: from Somatisation and Hypochondriasis to Hysteria and Beyond 10. 'If you are not my mum, who are you?': A Woman's Analytic Journey from Melancholic Identification to an Identity of her Own 11. Liquid Fear and a Dissolving Identity 12. Identity as the Threads of Meaning Through a Person's Life
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