R.M. Mendelsohn (ed.)

The Synthesis of Self

Volume 1 the I of Consciousness Development from Birth to Maturity
Herausgegeben:Mendelsohn, R. M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A psychoanalyst, through training and experience, directs the en­ tire focus of his attention to registering and internalizing the in­ put of a patient's communications, listening intently for their implied meanings. It is only by umaveling the mysteries of an un­ conscious realm of mental activity that it becomes possible to fully comprehend the way in which mental productions are finally ob­ servable. The psychoanalyst's total personality is the listening in­ strument, and the messages emanating from this hidden sector most clearly heard, deciphered, and understood are those most resonant with the contents of the psychoanalyst's unconscious. It is probable that a variety of psychoanalysts adopting a listening posture with a given patient would hear and understand a mul­ tiplicity of different meanings. Over the years, sensitive, well­ trained psychoanalytic investigators have formulated concepts con­ cerning mental functioning from disparate and often opposing points of view. These contradictory ideas are offered from a ba­ sic theoretical foundation placing unconscious mental events as the most important force shaping human experience. Divergent opin­ ions may at times appear irreconcilable and then serve as the grounds for developing a separate psychoanalytic school of thought. It is not surprising that an exploration of unseen powerful and regressive forces, by a group of scientists with unique in­ dividual experiences, would yield insights sensitively attuned to a wide variety of important factors determining human develop­ ment and behavior.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-306-42711-4
• 1987.
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 1987
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9780306427114
• ISBN-10: 0306427117
• Artikelnr.: 27620685

Inhaltsangabe

1. Body Ego Experience and the Nuclear Self: The Onset of Unconscious Perception.- 2. The Qualities of Perceptual Experience and Object Impressions: The Self- and Object Representational Systems.- 3. Libido as Object Seeking and the Mechanism of Splitting: An Integration of Libidinal and Object Relations Theory.- 4. Separation-Individuation: The Formation of New Psychic Structures.- 5. The Onset of Cohesiveness: The Formationand Function of the Grandiose Self and the Ego Ideal.- 6. The Pregenital Phases of Psychosexual Development: The Evolution of Focused Perceptual Functions and Boundaries and the Preconditions forthe Establishment of an Oedipal Conflict.- 7. The Oedipal Conflict as a Psychic Organizer.- 8. The Resolution of the Oedipal Conflict: The Consolidation of the Superego into an Independently Functioning Agency and the Process of Alteration inthe Fixation Points.- 9. Significance of the Latency Period.- 10. Pubescence: Relinquishing the Attachment to Primary Infantile Objects and Their Replacement with New Objects.- 11. The Final Step to Maturity: The Genital Character.- References.