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Will appeal to scholars across both film studies and psychoanalysis
Uses a range of contemporary films to illustrate Combines
socio-political commentary and psychological insight
Will appeal to scholars across both film studies and psychoanalysis
Uses a range of contemporary films to illustrate Combines
socio-political commentary and psychological insight
Ronald Fairbairn developed a thoroughgoing object relations theory
that became a foundation for modern clinical thought. This volume
is homage to the enduring power of his thinking, and of his
importance now and for the future of relational thinking within the
social and human sciences. The book gathers an international group
of therapists, analysts, psychiatrists, social commentators, and
historians, who contend that Fairbairn's work extends powerfully
beyond the therapeutic. They suggest that social, cultural, and
historical dimensions can all be illuminated by his work.Object
relations as a strand within psychoanalysis began with Freud and
passed through Ferenczi and Rank, Balint, Suttie, and Klein, to
come of age in Fairbairn's papers of the early 1940s. That there is
still life in this line of thinking is illustrated by the essays in
this collection and by the modern relational turn in psychoanalytic
theory, the development of attachment theory, and the increasing
recognition that there is 'no such thing as an ego' without
context, without relationships, without a social milieu.
Personal relationships concern us all, they are essential to our
becoming who we are and constitute our most vital experience of
what it is like to be alive and human. This book proposes a new
approach to understanding who we are based on the work of Ronald
Fairbairn, John Macmurray and Ian Suttie, whose ideas provide a
positive perspective on our future collective possibilities.
"Personal Relations Theory" presents a new and comprehensive
account of Fairbairn's mature theory. Part One provides a thorough
overview of Fairbairn's work and its ramifications for our
understanding of creativity and the nature of inner reality. Part
Two covers Fairbairn's relationship to Macmurray and Suttie, and
their relevance to realist philosophy, the scientific status of
psychoanalysis, attachment theory and the politics of the personal
relations view point. Subjects discussed in depth include:
- Internal objects and inner reality: Fairbairn and Klein
- Fairbairn's theory of art in the light of his mature model of
mind
- The preconscious and psychic change in Fairbairn's model of mind
- The politics of attachment theory and personal relations theory:
Fairbairn, Suttie and Bowlby
The combination of Fairbairn, Macmurray and Suttie presented here
forms an original strand of object relations theory, which has
implications and consequences for a wide spectrum of concerns. This
book will be of value to anyone interested in psychoanalysis,
especially in relation to politics, society and the arts
Thinking through Fairbairn offers parallel perspectives on
Fairbairn's work. It explores an extended interpretation of his
'psychology of dynamic structure' and applies that model to a
number of different areas. Fairbairn's Scottish origins are
explored through his relationship with the work of Ian Suttie and
Edward Glover. A new extended object relations model of phantasy
and inner reality that reflects Fairbairn's approach as represented
by his contribution to the Controversial Discussions is also
developed. In cooperation with Paul Finnegan, this version of
Fairbairn's model is applied to an understanding of multiple
personality disorder or dissociative identity disorder. This model
is combined with Fairbairn's theory of art to provide an
understanding of some 'puzzle' films based in trauma and
dissociation. Fairbairn's theory is presented here as a synthesis
of classical and relational approaches, and his appropriation by
relational theorists as a precursor to exclusively relational
approaches challenged.
Substantial contributions from an internationally varied host of
authors use newly available material to develop novel aspects of
Fairbairn s life and theory, reviewing the basic ideas of his
theory, clinical application, and new developments built on his
object relations vision of psychoanalysis. Comprising thirty-nine
papers, thirty-six of which are original to this volume, the book
is divided into four main sections historical, clinical,
theoretical and applied. Fairbairn s contribution to
object-relations theory is rehearsed and the future development of
Fairbairn s work is considered. Fairbairn s relationship with
Guntrip and Winnicott is explored, his influence on a philosophical
and a clinical understanding of multiplicity is assessed, his
social and historical papers are mined for his views on prejudice
and the social order, and new models of clinical configurations
suggested. Fairbairn s relationship with and influence on Mitchell
is investigated from different perspectives and his position within
Scottish and psychoanalytic history also developed. Fairbairn s
contribution to couple therapy, to an understanding of the Oedipus
situation, to the acceptance and understanding of literary works
and to child welfare are all broached. The influence of religion
and Fairbairn s own understanding of his gender identity are
explored based on newly available documents including some
self-analytic notes. Fairbairn s influence in South America and in
particular Argentina is manifest in a variety of contributions, and
his significant but generally forgotten or ignored contribution to
psychoanalytic aesthetics is assessed."
Personal relationships concern us all, they are essential to our
becoming who we are and constitute our most vital experience of
what it is like to be alive and human. This book proposes a new
approach to understanding who we are based on the work of Ronald
Fairbairn, John Macmurray and Ian Suttie, whose ideas provide a
positive perspective on our future collective possibilities.
"Personal Relations Theory" presents a new and comprehensive
account of Fairbairn's mature theory. Part One provides a thorough
overview of Fairbairn's work and its ramifications for our
understanding of creativity and the nature of inner reality. Part
Two covers Fairbairn's relationship to Macmurray and Suttie, and
their relevance to realist philosophy, the scientific status of
psychoanalysis, attachment theory and the politics of the personal
relations view point. Subjects discussed in depth include:
- Internal objects and inner reality: Fairbairn and Klein
- Fairbairn's theory of art in the light of his mature model of
mind
- The preconscious and psychic change in Fairbairn's model of mind
- The politics of attachment theory and personal relations theory:
Fairbairn, Suttie and Bowlby
The combination of Fairbairn, Macmurray and Suttie presented here
forms an original strand of object relations theory, which has
implications and consequences for a wide spectrum of concerns. This
book will be of value to anyone interested in psychoanalysis,
especially in relation to politics, society and the arts
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