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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461653903321

Autore

Eigen Michael

Titolo

The electrified tightrope / / by Michael Eigen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2004

ISBN

0-429-90633-1

0-429-48156-X

1-283-12603-6

9786613126030

1-84940-430-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/17

616.8917

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1993 by Jason Aronson Inc., NJ, USA.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Introductory Notes; 1. Abstinence and the Schizoid Ego; 2. Psychopathy and Individuation; 3. The Recoil on Having Another Person; 4. Working with ""Unwanted"" Patients; 5. Breathing and Identity; 6. The Significance of the Face; 7. Instinctual Fantasy and Ideal Images; 8. Creativity, Instinctual Fantasy, and Ideal Images; 9. Ideal Images, Creativity, and the Freudian Drama; 10. Soft and Hard Qualities; 11. The Area of Faith in Winnicott, Lacan, and Bion; 12. Guntrip's Analysis with Winnicott; 13. Breaking the Frame: Stopping the World

14. Dual Union or Undifferentiation?15. The Structure of Freud's Theory of Creativity; 16. Demonized Aspects of the Self; 17. Between Catastrophe and Faith; 18. Omnipotence; 19. Mindlessness-Selflessness; 20. Omniscience; Afterword; Credits; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A collection of exceptional papers by the author, selected and assembled by Adam Phillips, that represent 20 years of writing and 30 years of work. The papers examine the tension, caused by the conflict



between poise and catastrophe, in the therapeutic relationship.