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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808101303321

Autore

Polledri Patricia

Titolo

Envy is not innate : a new model of thinking / / by Patricia Polledri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2012

ISBN

0-429-91332-X

9780429896901

0-429-47432-6

1-282-00024-1

9786613795359

1-78241-004-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

152.48

Soggetti

Envy

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

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Historical background: a brief overview; CHAPTER TWO Literature review; CHAPTER THREE Encapsulated containerlessness; CHAPTER FOUR Shame and envy; CHAPTER FIVE Self envy; CHAPTER SIX Perverse relationships in pathological organisations; CHAPTER SEVEN Womb envy; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a comprehensive revision of the notion of envy, suggesting that envy is not innate and proposing some fresh ideas about its relation to psychopathology. Its argument is that envy is not simply attributable to constitutional forces, as Melanie Klein proposed, but the outcome of a complex process that includes a disturbance in symbolic functioning. This is the first time a critical review has been undertaken in book from of this cornerstone of British psychoanalysis. As the concept of envy needs to be explored in the light of attachment theory, an important aim of this book is in bridging attachment theory and classic psychoanalytic understanding of severe psychopathology. It also offers, for the first time, not only a reconceptualisation of the notion of



envy, but a working model of development which is highly relevant to clinical practice. This model incorporates recent findings from neuroscience, which indicate that environmental influences are of prime importance to infantile development, and that disturbed attachments result in anatomical, physiological and psychological developmental disturbances.