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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821891003321

Autore

Quinodoz Danielle

Titolo

Emotional vertigo, between anxiety and pleasure / / Danielle Quinodoz ; foreword by Alain Gibeault ; translated by Arnold Pomerans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997

ISBN

1-134-75267-9

0-203-27981-6

1-134-75268-7

1-280-32001-X

9786610320011

0-203-44103-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

New library of psychoanalysis ; ; 28

Disciplina

616.8/41

Soggetti

Vertigo - Psychological aspects

Psychoanalysis

Object relations (Psychoanalysis)

Medicine, Psychosomatic

Anxiety

Pleasure

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 (p. 190-194) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword by; What is vertigo?; Fusion-related vertigo; Vertigo related to being dropped; Suction-related vertigo; Imprisonment/escape-related vertigo; Vertigo due to attraction to the void: the emergence of internal space; Expansion-related vertigo; Competition-related vertigo; Vertigo, from anxiety to pleasure; What makes a candidate for vertigo?; Vertigo in the work of Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein; Dangerous games with vertigo; Equilibrium: a continuous construction; Bibliography; Index of names; General subject index

Sommario/riassunto

In this unique, prize-winning study Danielle Quinodoz unravels the unconscious significance of the feelings of vertigo which arise in situations where there is no immediate physical danger of falling and



no organic cause. She traces the origins of such emotional vertigo to inner anxieties around separation which are expressed somatically at different levels according to the level of anxiety.Through a detailed case study of a patient who developed the symptoms of vertigo during analysis the author offers some thought-provoking insights into the vicissitudes of the object relationship