A New Freudian Synthesis

Clinical Process in the Next Generation

Andrew B. Druck, Carolyn S. Ellman, Norbert Freedman, Aaron Thaler, Andrew B. Druck, Carolyn S. Ellman, Norbert Freedman, Aaron Thaler

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781855758650
• eBook ISBN: 9780429910395
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This work presents a vision of contemporary Freudian psychoanalysis. The contributors show how modern Freudian analysts have translated and retranslated the contributions of analysts on whose shoulders they stand, including Freud, Winnicott, Loewald, Ferenczi and others, and synthesized them into a new conception of Freudian theory and technique.The opening chapters provide a theoretical overview, demonstrating the evolution of Freudian theory and ways in which different theories can be integrated. The latter chapters, forming the bulk of the volume, translate that frame into clinical process.Analysts confronted with clinical dilemmas - for example, patients who cannot, for various reasons, use interpretations productively - find ways to address these dilemmas while deepening the analytic process. The reader will find that a new synthesis has taken place in which the relationship with the analyst is a crucial element in setting the stage for patients to take a closer look into their inner world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Contributor
• Introduction
• Chapter One Modern conflict theory: a critical review
• Chapter Two Modern structural theory
• Chapter Three States of consciousness
• Chapter Four New developments in the theory and clinical application of the annihilation anxiety concept
• Chapter Five Breakdown and recovery in the analysis of a young woman
• Chapter Six On shame in narcissistic states of consciousness: clinical illustration
• Chapter Seven Anonymity: blank screen or black hole
• Chapter Eight Ferenczi's concepts of identification with the aggressor and play as foundational processes in the analytic relationship
• Chapter Nine Cultivating meaning space: Freudian and neo-Kleinian conceptions of therapeutic action
• Chapter Ten “Secretly attached, secretly separate” Art, dreams, and transferencecountertransference in the analysis of a third generation Holocaust survivor
• Discussion of “Secretly Attached, Secretly Separate”
• Eleven A new Freudian synthesis: reflections and a perspective
• References
• Index