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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781376203321

Autore

Steiner John <1934-, >

Titolo

Seeing and being seen : emerging from a psychic retreat / / John Steiner ; foreword by Roy Schafer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-65477-1

1-283-10302-8

9786613103024

1-136-65478-X

0-203-80636-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Collana

New library of psychoanalysis

Disciplina

616.89/17

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Impasse (Psychotherapy)

Defense mechanisms (Psychology)

Psychotherapist and patient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Seeing and Being Seen; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Roy Schafer; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Embarrassment, Shame, and Humiliation; 1. The anxiety of being seen: narcissistic pride and narcissistic humiliation; 2. Gaze, dominance, and humiliation in the Schreber case; 3. Improvement and the embarrassment of tenderness; 4. Transference to the analyst as an excluded observer; Part Two: Helplessness, Power, and Dominance; 5. The struggle for dominance in the Oedipus situation; 6. Helplessness and the exercise of power in the analytic session

7. Revenge and resentment in the Oedipus situationPart three: Mourning, Melancholia, and the Repetition Compulsion; 8. The conflict between mourning and melancholia; 9. Repetition compulsion, envy, and the death instinct; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Seeing and Being Seen: Emerging from a Psychic Retreat examines the themes that surface when considering clinical situations where patients feel stuck and where a failure to develop impedes the progress of



analysis. This book analyses the anxieties and challenges confronted by patients as they begin to emerge from the protection of psychic retreats. Divided into three parts, areas of discussion include:embarrassment, shame, and humiliationhelplessness, power, and dominancemourning, melancholia, and the repetition compulsion.</LI