Sally Swartz

Ruthless Winnicott

The role of ruthlessness in psychoanalysis and political protest

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Produktbeschreibung

Ruthless Winnicott is an extended exploration of the role of ruthlessness in psychic development. That survival is of no use unless it is preceded by a ruthless attack is one of D.W. Winnicott¿s most resonant paradoxes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781138345485
• ISBN-10: 1138345482
• Artikelnr.: 54487753

Autorenporträt

Sally Swartz, PhD, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and academic, teaching, supervising and practising in Cape Town, South Africa. She has an enduring interest in the traumatic effects of colonialism, which was the subject of her monograph, Homeless Wanderers: Movement and Mental Illness in the Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century (2015). Ruthless Winnicott brings together her interest in the history of colonialism in South Africa, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the decolonial turn.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Ruthless Winnicott and the decolonial project
Chapter One: We want to be eaten
Chapter Two: Ruthlessness and idealization
Chapter Three: Having a good peep: False selves and use of the therapeutic space
Chapter Four: The weeping couch
Chapter Five: Masks, slipping
Chapter Six: Rhodes, falling
Chapter Seven: Ruthlessness and the missing middle
Chapter Eight: Decolonizing psychoanalysis