Psychic reality in context perspectives on psychoanalysis, personal history, and trauma / Marion M. Oliner.
This book skillfully combines autobiographical stories with clear psychoanalytical theories. During her childhood, the author experienced the Holocaust and was left understandly traumatised by it. It was her desire to confront this trauma that led her to psychoanalysis. For decades, the coherence of...
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS AND APPLICATIONS SERIES; Introduction; Prologue A: Personal reflections on three analyses and their aftermath; Prologue B: Excuse me for having been born: the fate of a German Jew during the Second World War; CHAPTER ONE The role of historic events in treatment; CHAPTER TWO Actual experience, memory, and the assimilation of trauma; CHAPTER THREE The elusive dimension of external reality in psychoanalytic theory; CHAPTER FOUR The limit of omnipotence.
- CHAPTER FIVE Life is not a dream: the importance of actual perception CHAPTER SIX Conclusion: "The unconscious has eyes and can see"; CHAPTER SEVEN Psychoanalysis from a different angle: "Jacques Lacan: the language of alienation"; REFERENCES; INDEX.