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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456702803321

Autore

Ambrosio Giovanna

Titolo

Language, symbolization, and psychosis / / by Giovanna Ambrosio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2007

ISBN

0-429-90134-8

0-429-47657-4

1-283-06919-9

9786613069191

1-84940-552-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Disciplina

150.1952

616.8917

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Native language - Psychological aspects

Symbolism (Psychology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The publication of this book ... is specifically to celebrate her [Jacqueline Amati Mehler] seventieth year."--P. vii-viii.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; Language, symbolization, and psychosis: an introduction; CHAPTER ONE A psychoanalytic enquiry into Pandora's box: symbol and metaphor; CHAPTER TWO Deciphering the secrets of oblivion; CHAPTER THREE Self formation, symbolic capacity, and spontaneity; CHAPTER FOUR A language for remembering the future; CHAPTER FIVE Symbolization and psychosis: the mediating function of images in individual psychoanalytic psychodrama; CHAPTER SIX 'White Psychoses': silence and delusions; CHAPTER SEVEN When actions speak louder than words

CHAPTER EIGHT Reflections on listening to and speaking with the patient during analysisCHAPTER NINE The past unconscious and the present unconscious; CHAPTER TEN The mystery of the unsaid name: commonalities between God and Rumpelstiltskin; CHAPTER ELEVEN



Texts and pre-texts in psychoanalytic clinical practice: languages and idioms; CHAPTER TWELVE Symbolism in love and sex; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Does the Pierce's semiotic model based on index, icon, symbol have anything to do with psychoanalysis?; CHAPTER FOURTEEN The foreign language; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book compares different psychoanalytic thinking and models - from a rigorously Freudian perspective - on three concepts of great theoretical and clinical importance: 'Language', 'Symbolization', and 'Psychoses'. These concepts are significantly interwoven with each other both in personal development as well as in the atypical and individual forms of pathology. The authors have endeavoured to reply to one of the foremost queries that has occupied Jacqueline Amati Mehler's thinking: whether and how the acquisitions of modern psychoanalysis have brought about changes in our criteria of analysability; whether our increased knowledge has lead to a greater therapeutic capacity, as she believes; and whether, as a consequence, we must endorse the so-called flexibility of the setting and the classical methods, as she does not believe.