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Both melancholia and mourning are triggered by the same thing, that
is, by loss. The distinction often made is that mourning occurs
after the death of a loved one while in melancholia the object of
love does not qualify as irretrievably lost. Melancholia is about a
loss that is sometimes retrievable.
This publication is the new volume of the "Contemporary Freud
Series" published by the IPA and now in association with Karnac
Books.The book describes the developments of the concept of
splitting both in the metapsychological and the clinical
perspectives emphasizing the great importance of this topic for
contemporary psychoanalysis.Starting with the history of the
concept, the book covers the French, English and Latin American
recent theorizations on the theme. In regard to the clinical
approaches the volume will present in the different chapters the
relationship between the splitting and complex clinical cases as
borderline, perverse and psychosomatic conditions.The volume also
includes aspects of splitting and the virtual reality as well as in
traumatic situations, factors so important in contemporary life.
The idea of this edition was to invite authors from different
regions and orientations to promote a fruitful debate on the theme,
thus enriching this seminal concept of Sigmund Freud."
The term 'psychoanalytical process', though occurring but rarely in
Freud's works, has become firmly established nowadays despite being
hard to define, explain, or pin down in conceptual or
meta-psychological terms. Although it is often employed as
equivalent to 'psychoanalytic work', currents of thought that draw
on the idea display a certain ambivalence, for it can relate both
to a theory of treatment (the practice of analysis) and to a theory
of mind (a theory of psychic functioning). Before developing his
own original perspectives about the consequences of the
heterogeneity of psychic functioning, the author examines how
various practitioners have approached this subject since Freud. He
shows how each has shed useful new light on this issue, leading to
a diversity of points of view, thereby justifying the idea of the
'process' within psychoanalytic treatment.
The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi provides a concise yet thorough
overview of the life and work of Sandor Ferenczi. It seeks to help
make his thought and work better known, as a controversial
pioneering psychoanalyst whose importance to psychoanalysis has
sometimes been wrongfully neglected and relegated to backstage.
Including excerpts from his most important papers, this book gives
the reader a clear guide to the major tenets of Ferenczi's work,
the psychoanalytic context in which his significant achievements
occurred, and the continued importance of his work for contemporary
psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice. Thierry Bokanowski
examines Ferenczi's work in three main stages: 1. A first period of
contribution to Freud's work (1908-1914) 2. A second period of the
deployment of Ferenczi's own thought and work (1914-1925) 3. A
third period of calling concepts into question and advancing new
concepts (1926-1933) Bokanowski offers a detailed analysis of these
three periods, illustrating them vividly by analysing Ferenczi's
numerous and very famous articles or books during these periods in
a way that allows his very original way of thinking to unfold. He
then examines at the theoretical level the heritage of Ferenczi's
hypotheses developed across these three time spans. Covering
Ferenczi's relationship with Freud and with other early
psychoanalysts, and his role in formulating well-established
concepts such as introjection, countertransference and narcissistic
splitting, The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi provides an essential
and accessible read for any student or clinician of psychoanalysis
or psychoanalytic psychotherapy seeking to apply Ferenczi's work in
the present and understand the historical development of
psychoanalytic ideas.
In Constructions in Analysis Freud introduces the notion of
constructions, different from interpretation, and considers it
necessary - under certain conditions - to reconstruct a part of the
infantile history of the subject. The difference between
construction and reconstruction as well as which should be the
limit of the intervention of the analys
The term 'psychoanalytical process', though occurring but rarely in
Freud's works, has become firmly established nowadays despite being
hard to define, explain, or pin down in conceptual or
meta-psychological terms. Although it is often employed as
equivalent to 'psychoanalytic work', currents of thought that draw
on the idea display a certain ambivalence, for it can relate both
to a theory of treatment (the practice of analysis) and to a theory
of mind (a theory of psychic functioning). Before developing his
own original perspectives about the consequences of the
heterogeneity of psychic functioning, the author examines how
various practitioners have approached this subject since Freud. He
shows how each has shed useful new light on this issue, leading to
a diversity of points of view, thereby justifying the idea of the
'process' within psychoanalytic treatment.
Both melancholia and mourning are triggered by the same thing, that
is, by loss. The distinction often made is that mourning occurs
after the death of a loved one while in melancholia the object of
love does not qualify as irretrievably lost.
This book includes the development of the concept of "splitting"
from both metapsychological and clinical perspectives, emphasizing
the great importance of this topic for contemporary psychoanalysis.
Starting with the history of the concept, the book covers recent
French, English and Latin American theorizations on the theme. In
regard to clinical approaches it presents the relationship between
the "splitting" and complex clinical cases such as borderline,
perverse and psychosomatic conditions. The book also includes
aspects of "splitting" and virtual reality, as well as in traumatic
situations: factors so important in contemporary life. The premise
behind this work was to invite authors from different regions and
orientations to promote a fruitful debate on the theme, thus
enriching one of Sigmund Freud's most seminal concepts.
The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi provides a concise yet thorough
overview of the life and work of Sandor Ferenczi. It seeks to help
make his thought and work better known, as a controversial
pioneering psychoanalyst whose importance to psychoanalysis has
sometimes been wrongfully neglected and relegated to backstage.
Including excerpts from his most important papers, this book gives
the reader a clear guide to the major tenets of Ferenczi's work,
the psychoanalytic context in which his significant achievements
occurred, and the continued importance of his work for contemporary
psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice. Thierry Bokanowski
examines Ferenczi's work in three main stages: 1. A first period of
contribution to Freud's work (1908-1914) 2. A second period of the
deployment of Ferenczi's own thought and work (1914-1925) 3. A
third period of calling concepts into question and advancing new
concepts (1926-1933) Bokanowski offers a detailed analysis of these
three periods, illustrating them vividly by analysing Ferenczi's
numerous and very famous articles or books during these periods in
a way that allows his very original way of thinking to unfold. He
then examines at the theoretical level the heritage of Ferenczi's
hypotheses developed across these three time spans. Covering
Ferenczi's relationship with Freud and with other early
psychoanalysts, and his role in formulating well-established
concepts such as introjection, countertransference and narcissistic
splitting, The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi provides an essential
and accessible read for any student or clinician of psychoanalysis
or psychoanalytic psychotherapy seeking to apply Ferenczi's work in
the present and understand the historical development of
psychoanalytic ideas.
In Constructions in Analysis Freud introduces the notion of
constructions, different from interpretation, and considers it
necessary--under certain conditions--to reconstruct a part of the
infantile history of the subject. The difference between
construction and reconstruction as well as which should be the
limit of the intervention of the analyst in order to avoid a
proposal far removed from the patient discourse, are a part of
present debates on this subject.The editors, Thierry Bokanowski,
Sergio Lewkowicz and Georges Pragier, together with the
contributors to this volume, accepted the challenge to consider
Freudian ideas and its implications nowadays.
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