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Record Nr.

UNISA996588066503316

Autore

Rogers Robert

Titolo

Self and Other : Object Relations in Psychoanalysis and Literature / / Robert Rogers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [1991]

©1991

ISBN

0-8147-6948-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Psychoanalytic crosscurrents

Disciplina

306.874/3

Soggetti

Object relations (Psychoanalysis) in literature

Object relations (Psychoanalysis)

Electronic books.

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. 183-189) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Drive versus Person: Two Orientations -- 2. Toward a Unified Theory of Object Relations -- 3. Freud's Cases Reread -- 4. Gabrielle, Anna, Renee, Joey: Four Case Histories -- 5. The Stepmother World of Moby Dick -- 6. Meursault's Estrangement -- 7. The Sequestered Self of Emily Dickinson -- 8. Self and Other in Shakespearean Tragedy -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Self and Other, Robert Rogers presents a powerful argument for the adoption of a theory of object relations, combining the best features of traditional psychoanalytic theory with contemporary views on attachment behavior and intersubjectivity. Rogers discusses theory in relation both to actual psychoanalytic case histories and imagined selves found in literature, and provides a critical rereading of the case histories of Freud, Winnicott, Lichtenstein, Sechehaye, and Bettelheim. At once scientific and humanistic, Self and Other engagingly draws from theoretical, clinical, and literary traditions. It will appeal to psychoanalysts as well as to literary scholars interested in the application of psychoanalysis to literature.