Ruthless Winnicott
Ruthless Winnicott

Author: Sally Swartz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-09

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0429791542

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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. The book links this with the search for subjective freedom for those traumatized by colonialism, and in doing so draws on the work of Algerian psychiatrist and revolutionary psychoanalytic thinker Frantz Fanon. Sally Swartz examines essential pieces of Winnicott’s work on ruthlessness as central to the emergence of concern for the Other. She illustrates, with clinical examples, ways in which the ruthless use of the psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic space allows the patient either to enter fully into a process that allows growth, or to defend ruthlessly against the anxieties provoked by psychic change. Ruthless Winnicott also maps decolonial challenges to psychoanalytic theory, and the role of ruthlessness in protest movements demanding radical subjective change. Swartz’s exploration of ruthlessness as both zest and defense in individual development and in protest movements illuminates processes of psychological collision and change. It traces links between individual trauma and collective turbulence, and maps ways in which ruthlessness is essential to subjective change. Ruthless Winnicott will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as scholars of colonialism, decolonization and post-colonialism.

Winnicott's Theory of the Maturational Processes
Winnicott's Theory of the Maturational Processes

Author: Elsa Oliveira Dias

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0429924143

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This book presents an in-depth, wide-ranging and rigorous investigation of Winnicott's central theory of maturational processes and its interrelation with psychic disorders. It provides the framework from which different aspects of the study of human nature can be developed.

Love and Hate
Love and Hate

Author: David Mann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1317763068

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Love and hate seem to be the dominant emotions that make the world go round and are a central theme in psychotherapy. Love and Hate seeks to answer some important questions about these all consuming passions. Many patients seeking psychotherapy feel unlovable or full of rage and hate. What is it that interferes with the capacity to experience love? This book explores the origins of love and hate from infancy and how they develop through the life cycle. It brings together contemporary views about clinical practice on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about love and hate in the transference and countertransference and explores how different schools of thought deal with the subject. David Mann, together with an impressive array of international contributors represent a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives, including Kleinian, Jungian, Independent Group, and Lacanian, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and analytical psychologists. With emphasis on clinical illustration throughout, the writers show how different psychoanalytic schools think about and clinically work with the experience and passions of love and hate. It will be invaluable to practitioners and students of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, analytical psychology and counselling.

Self Psychology
Self Psychology

Author: Douglas Detrick

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 1317771656

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This collection of "comparisons and contrasts" explores Heinz Kohut's self psychology in relation to a wide-ranging group of modern thinkers, both inside and outside of analysis. Separate sections analyze self psychology alongside Freud and the first generation of psychoanalytic dissidents; British object relations theorists; and contemporary theorists like Kernberg, Mahler, Lacan, and Masterson.

Psychoanalysis and Gender
Psychoanalysis and Gender

Author: Rosalind Minsky

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-23

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1134680260

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What is object-relations theory and what does it have to do with literary studies? How can Freud's phallocentric theories be applied by feminist critics? In Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader Rosalind Minsky answers these questions and more, offering students a clear, straightforward overview without ever losing them in jargon. In the first section Minsky outlines the fundamentals of the theory, introducing the key thinkers and providing clear commentary. In the second section, the theory is demonstrated by an anthology of seminal essays which includes: * Feminity by Sigmund Freud * Envy and Gratitude by Melanie Klein * An extract from Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena by Donald Winnicot * The Meaning of the Phallus by Jacques Lacan * An extract from Women's Time by Julia Kristeva * An extract from Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray

Understanding Personality Through Projective Testing
Understanding Personality Through Projective Testing

Author: Steven Tuber

Publisher: Jason Aronson

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0765709236

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Understanding Personality Through Projective Testing provides a concise, nuanced depiction of six core aspects of personality within a psychodynamic/developmental framework. It then portrays how each of these domains can be assessed with four projective methods: the Rorschach, TAT, Sentence Completion and Animal Preference Tests. The strengths and heuristic value of each of the four methods are described individually and then integrated via case examples to provide a rich, comprehensive methodology for understanding personality functioning.

Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy
Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy

Author: Donald Moss

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1000465551

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The kinds of hatreds that analysts have assumed make up part of the unspoken backdrop of Western civilization have now erupted into our daily foreground. This book, consisting of essays from eleven psychoanalysts, responds to that eruption. The five essays of Part 1, "Hating in the first person plural," take on the pervasive impact of structured forms of hatred – racism, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia. These malignant forces are put into action by large- and small-group identifications. Even the action of the apparent "lone wolf" inevitably enacts loyal membership in a surrounding community. The hating entity is always "we." In Part 2, "The racialized object/the racializing subject," the essays’ focus narrows to an examination of racist expressions of "hating, abhorring, and wishing to destroy." A particular focus is the state of excitement attached to this form of hatred, to its sadistic origins, and to the endless array of objects offered to the racializing subject. In Part 3, "This land: whose is it, really?," its two essays focus on symbolic and physical violence targeting the natural world. We expand the traditional field of psychoanalytic inquiry to include the natural world, the symbolic meaning of its "trees," and the psychopolitical meanings of its land. This book offers a psychoanalytically informed guide to understanding and working against hatreds in clinical work and in everyday life and will appeal to training and experienced psychoanalysts, as well as anyone with an interest in current political and cultural climates.

Education and the Fantasies of Neoliberalism
Education and the Fantasies of Neoliberalism

Author: Matthew Clarke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-29

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 100048050X

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Education and the Fantasies of Neoliberalism revitalizes conversations about the nature and purpose of education in a global context characterized by concerns about quality and equity in education, reflecting wider economic and political anxieties around declining productivity and social inclusion. The book illustrates how Lacanian psychoanalytic theory offers a conceptual vocabulary for exposing and critiquing the fantasmatic nature of policy and practice, while foregrounding the tensions and contradictions they seek to conceal. Specifically, the book draws on ideas of lack, fantasy and desire from Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to gain insights into the contentious but disavowed politics of reform in education. The book builds on cutting-edge work in political and psychoanalytic theory to offer unique insights that challenge and contest the simplistic and often trivializing readings of education in contemporary media and political debates. Offering a novel perspective on education policy reform, this book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of philosophy of education and educational policy and politics.

Vienna 2019 - Encountering the Other: Within us, between us and in the world
Vienna 2019 - Encountering the Other: Within us, between us and in the world

Author: Emilija Kiehl

Publisher: Daimon

Published:

Total Pages: 1093

ISBN-13: 3856309950

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The XXI International Congress for Analytical Psychology was held in Vienna, the birthplace of psychoanalysis. It brought together an unprecedented number of participants from all over the world and from different fields of knowledge. The theme: Encountering the Other: Within us, between us and in the world, a most relevant and urgent topic of the contemporary discourse among clinicians and academics alike, was explored in a rich and diverse program of pre-congress workshops, master classes, plenary and breakout presentations and posters. The Proceedings are published as two volumes: a printed edition of the plenary presentations, and an e-Book with the complete material presented at the Congress. To professionals as well as the general public, this collection of papers offers an inspiring insight into contemporary Jungian thinking from the classical to the latest research-based scientific lens. From the Contents: Deifying the Soul – from Ibn Arabi to C.G. Jung by Navid Kermani Apocalyptic Themes in Times of Trouble: When Young Men are Deeply Alienated by Robert Tyminski Panel Encountering the Other Within: Dream Research in Analytical Psychology and the Relationship of Ego and other Parts of the Psyche by Christian Roesler, Yasuhiro Tanaka & Tamar Kron Integration Versus Conflict Between Schools of Dream Theory and Dreamwork: integrating the psychological core qualities of dreams with the contemporary knowledge of the dreaming brain by Ole Vedfelt Freud and Jung on Freud and Jung by Ernst Falzeder Opening the Closed Heart: affect-focused clinical work with the victims of early trauma by Donald E. Kalsched The Other Between Fear and Desire – countertransference fantasy as a bridge between me and the other by Daniela Eulert-Fuchs Self, Other and Individuation: resolving narcissism through the lunar and solar paths of the Rosarium by Marcus West Encountering the Other: Jungian Analysts and Traditional Healers in South Africa by Peter Ammann, Fred Borchardt , Nomfundo Lily-Rose Mlisa & Renee Ramsden From Horror to Ethical Responsibility: Carl Gustav Jung and Stephen King encounter the dark half within us, between us and in the world by Chiara Tozzi