The Primitive Edge of ExperienceThis book is concerned with the primitive edge of human experience. It explores the idea that human experience is the product of the dialectical interplay of three modes of generating experience: the depressive, the paranoid-schizoid, and the autistic-contiguous. |
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... analysand serve as “containers” for the experience of confusion and not knowing. If all is going well in the analytic process, the analysand will inevitably complain that he understands even less at present than he did at the beginning ...
... analysand serve as “containers” for the experience of confusion and not knowing. If all is going well in the analytic process, the analysand will inevitably complain that he understands even less at present than he did at the beginning ...
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Thomas Ogden. A reader, like an analysand, dares to experience the disturbing feeling of not knowing each time he begins reading a new piece of writing. We regularly create the soothing illusion for ourselves that we have nothing to lose ...
Thomas Ogden. A reader, like an analysand, dares to experience the disturbing feeling of not knowing each time he begins reading a new piece of writing. We regularly create the soothing illusion for ourselves that we have nothing to lose ...
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... analysand desperately darts between wishes to know and wishes not to know. Similarly, it is our need to know that leads us to read; at the same time, we are deterred from reading by our unconscious knowledge that the book that we are ...
... analysand desperately darts between wishes to know and wishes not to know. Similarly, it is our need to know that leads us to read; at the same time, we are deterred from reading by our unconscious knowledge that the book that we are ...
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... to the prospect of beginning analysis. The analyst attempts to understand the nature of these transference anxieties and to help the analysand put these fears into words. In the final chapter, I discuss a specific form of.
... to the prospect of beginning analysis. The analyst attempts to understand the nature of these transference anxieties and to help the analysand put these fears into words. In the final chapter, I discuss a specific form of.
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... analysand attempt to understand the “leading edge of anxiety” that constitutes the principal source of the disruption of the inter subjective discourse at a given moment. In a depressive mode, that anxiety is always object-related in ...
... analysand attempt to understand the “leading edge of anxiety” that constitutes the principal source of the disruption of the inter subjective discourse at a given moment. In a depressive mode, that anxiety is always object-related in ...
Contents
3 | |
The Nature of AutisticContiguous Anxiety | |
4 | |
Schizoid Phenomena | |
5 | |
The Transitional Relationship | |
A Reevaluation of the Freudian Female Oedipal Narrative | |
The Absence of Thirdness | |
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Creating Analytic Significance | |
Cautionary Tales | |
Anxious Questioning | |
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The Structuralization of Misrecognition | |
Misrecognition as a Dimension of Eating Disorders | |
Implications for the Development of Gender Identity | |
The Organization of Sexual Meaning | |
References | |
Index | |
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analysand analysis analytic setting analytic space anxiety aspect attempt autistic shapes autistic-contiguous mode autistic-contiguous position become beginning bodily castration anxiety chapter Chasseguet-Smirgel child conception constitutes context countertransference created danger defense depressive mode depressive position described discussed early experienced external fantasy father-in-mother fear felt female Oedipus complex Freud girl’s idea initial internal object relations internal object relationship internal object world International Journal International Universities Press interpretation involves Jason Aronson Journal of Psycho-Analysis Klein little boy little girl male means mediated meeting misrecognitions mode of experience Oedipal father Ogden omnipotent one’s paranoid-schizoid mode paranoid-schizoid position pathological patient penis person phallic phallus phenomena pre-Oedipal mother primal scene phantasy primitive projective identification psychoanalytic psychological organization relatedness schizoid schizophrenic sensations sense sensory experience sensory surface sexual skin space symbol T. S. Eliot talk therapist therapy transference transitional Oedipal relationship transitional relationship Tustin unconscious mind understanding understood Winnicott York