Psychoanalytic Theory
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Psychoanalytic Theory

An Introduction

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  2. English
  3. PDF
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eBook - PDF

Psychoanalytic Theory

An Introduction

About this book

Influential, exciting and often controversial, psychoanalytic theory has had a major impact in the humanities and social sciences.

In a new edition of this classic book, Anthony Elliott masterfully introduces the reader to psychoanalytic theory.

- Discusses leading psychoanalytic theorists - from Freud to Lacan, Klein to Kristeva, ŽiŞek to Laplanche;
- Examines the political and cultural dimensions of psychoanalytic studies, from feminism to postmodernism; and
- Contains new material on Lacanian and post-Lacanian theory, the post-Kleinian psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion, psychoanalytic feminism and deconstructive psychoanalysis.

Written by one of the world's leading social theorists, this engaging and influential text is essential reading for anyone wanting to learn about psychoanalytic theory and its cultural importance in our lives.

New to this Edition:
- New and fully revised edition with new material on theories

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Information

Publisher
Red Globe Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781137300836
eBook ISBN
9781137300843
Edition
3
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Psychoanalysis
Index
Psychology
OBJECT 
RELATIONS, 
KLEINIAN 
THEORY, 
SELF-PSYCHOLOGY 
99
Against 
the 
fragmentation 
of 
modern 
culture, 
Kohut’s 
work 
can 
be 
read 
as 
a 
modernist 
defence 
of 
our 
collective 
need 
for 
expansive 
identity 
and 
secure 
self-boundaries. 
The 
mobile 
world 
of 
modernity 
means 
that 
individuals 
require 
identity 
and 
stable 
selfobjects 
in 
order 
to 
create 
a 
rich 
and 
meaningful 
life 
(Table 
3.1).
Table 
3.1 
Object 
relations, 
Kleinian 
theory, 
self-psychology
Theoretical 
model
Self-society 
link 
Key 
terms
Object 
relational 
theory
Erikson
Self-organization 
through 
basic 
trust 
and 
ideological 
adaptation
Basic 
trust
Ego-identity
Winnicott
Personal 
continuity 
created 
through 
transitional 
space 
of 
culture 
and 
symbolization
Transitional 
space
True 
self/false 
self
Giddens
Self-identity 
forged 
via 
trust 
mechanisms 
and 
routinization
Trust 
mechanisms
Bracketing 
anxiety
Protective 
cocoon
Kleinian 
and 
post-Kleinian 
theory
Klein
Self 
embedded 
in 
fantasy 
scenarios, 
structured 
by 
mechanisms 
of 
projection 
and 
introjection
Paranoid-schizoid 
and 
depressive 
positions
Projective/introjective
Identification
Rustin/Alford
Selfhood 
as 
intrinsically 
social; 
connected 
to 
alternative 
futures
Society 
as 
relational 
context
Moral 
capacities 
of 
self
Bion
Thought 
as 
rooted 
in 
affect
Attacks 
on 
linking
Self-psychology
Kohut
Relational 
world 
affects 
self-experience
Selfobjects
Transmuting 
internalization

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