Joseph M Jones

Affects As Process

An Inquiry into the Centrality of Affect in Psychological Life

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Produktbeschreibung

In this meditation on the nature of emotional experience, Jones argues that, in their simplest form, affects are the presymbolic representatives and governors of motivational systems. Once we apprehend affects as the infant's initial processing system, w

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781138872363
• ISBN-10: 1138872369
• Artikelnr.: 42787522

Autorenporträt

Joseph M. Jones, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst as the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute and the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is on the clinical faculty of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and maintains a private practice in the West Los Angeles area.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Is Primary Process Primary? In the Beginning... Freud
Darwin
and Descartes. Affects as Composites. The Search for Primitive Thought. Is Primary Process Primary? Part II: Affects as Process. The Language of Affectivity. Moods. Lust
Libido
and Love. Contentment
Excitement
and Joy. Fear. Anxiety and Traumatic States. Aggression and Rage. The Prereflective Roots of Shame. Presymbolic Character Structure. The Development of Thought. Rapprochement. Object Relations and Object Constancy. Love
Hate
and the Dynamic Unconscious. Thought Dysfunctions. Psychosexual Development and Motivational Systems. Affects and the Self.