There is a paucity of literature on belief written from a psychoanalytic viewpoint, yet the concept is central to analysis. This book comprises Ronald Brittons writing on the subject over the last fifteen years, exploring the concepts of belief and imagination from a Kleinian perspective, and covering such topics as:
*the status of fantasies in an individuals mind (are they facts or possibilities)
* how the notions of objectivity and subjectivity are interrelated and have their origins in the Oedipal triangle
*how fantasies which are held to be products of the imagination, rather than facts or beliefs about the world, can be accounted for in psychoanalytic terms, given the lack of any account of imagination in any modern model of the mind.
As well as exploring the various aspects of belief encountered in analysis, Britton also examines the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing, and the ways in which the issues of belief, imagination and reality are explored in the works of Wordsworth, Rilke, Milton and Blake. The book should have appeal to philosophers, literary scholars and theologists as well as psychoanalysts.
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