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The Primitive Edge of Experience (Paperback)
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The Primitive Edge of Experience (Paperback)
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"This is an extraordinary and exciting book, the work of a truly
original and creative psychoanalytic theoretician and most astute
clinician. Ogden continues to expand and to deepen his
reformulations of the British object-relations theorists, M. Klein,
W. R. Bion, D. W. Winnicott, W. R. D. Fairbairn, H. Guntrip, to
illuminate further the world of internalized object relations. His
concepts are evolutionary and at times revolutionary. Exploring the
area of human experience that lies beyond the psychological
territories addressed by the previous theorists, he introduces the
concept of an autistic-contiguous mode as a way of conceiving of
the most primitive psychological organization through which the
sensory "floor" of the experience of self is generated. He
conceives of this mode as a sensory-dominated, presymbolic area of
experience in which the most primitive form of meaning is generated
on the basis of organization of sensory impressions, particularly
at the skin surface. A major tenet in the book is a
conceptualization of human experience throughout life as the
product of a dialectical interplay among three modes of generating
experience: the depressive, the paranoid-schizoid, and the
autistic-contiguous. Each mode creates, preserves, and negates the
other. No single mode of generating experience exists independently
of the others. Psychopathology is conceptualized as a "collapse" of
the dialectic in the direction of one or another mode of generating
experience. The outcome of such collapse may be entrapment in
rigid, asymbolic patterns of sensation (collapse in the direction
of the autistic-contiguous mode), or imprisonment in a world of
omnipotent internal objects where thoughts and feelings are
experienced as things and forces which occupy or bombard the self
(collapse in the direction of paranoid-schizoid mode) or isolation
of the self from lived experience and aliveness of bodily,
sensations (collapse in the direction of the depressive mode).
Ogden presents his unique development of the autisti
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