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

edited by Sharon Numa

(New library of psychoanalysis)

Routledge, 2023

  • : pbk

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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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  • NCID
    BC15876055
  • ISBN
    • 9781032210759
  • LCCN
    2022005697
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Abingdon
  • Pages/Volumes
    xx, 300 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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