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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821419703321

Autore

Britton Ronald

Titolo

Belief and imagination : explorations in psychoanalysis / / Ronald Britton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998

ISBN

1-134-64914-2

9786610023776

0-203-36081-8

1-134-64915-0

1-280-02377-5

0-415-19437-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xii, 226 p

Disciplina

153.3

Soggetti

Belief and doubt

Imagination

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 Belief and psychic reality -- chapter 2 Naming and containing -- chapter 3 Oedipus in the depressive position -- chapter 4 Subjectivity, objectivity and triangular space -- chapter 5 The suspension of belief and the as-if syndrome -- chapter 6 Before and after the depressive position: Ps(n)?D(n)?Ps(n+1) -- chapter 7 Complacency in analysis and everyday life -- chapter 8 The analyst's intuition: selected fact or overvalued idea? -- chapter 9 Daydream, phantasy and fiction -- chapter 10 The other room and poetic space -- chapter 11 Wordsworth: the loss of presence and the presence of loss -- chapter 12 Existential anxiety: Rilke's Duino Elegies -- chapter 13 Milton's destructive narcissist or Blake's true self? -- chapter 14 William Blake and epistemic narcissism -- chapter 15 Publication anxiety.

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award!   Brings together Ronald Britton's writing on the subject of belief and imagination over the last 15 years,



exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective and examining the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing.