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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Each insight, however valuable, immediately constitutes the next resistance in that the new knowledge is already part of the static known and must be overcome in the process of freshly knowing. It is necessary that both the analytic ...
Each insight, however valuable, immediately constitutes the next resistance in that the new knowledge is already part of the static known and must be overcome in the process of freshly knowing. It is necessary that both the analytic ...
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Each constitutes the conditions necessary for the other; neither “leads to” or “causes” the other in a linear, sequential sense. The achievement of symbol formation proper allows one to experience oneself as a person thinking one's ...
Each constitutes the conditions necessary for the other; neither “leads to” or “causes” the other in a linear, sequential sense. The achievement of symbol formation proper allows one to experience oneself as a person thinking one's ...
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The depressive mode of generating experience that has been schematically described constitutes a dialectical pole that exists only in relation to the paranoid-schizoid and autistic-contiguous poles. In the never-attained ideal of the ...
The depressive mode of generating experience that has been schematically described constitutes a dialectical pole that exists only in relation to the paranoid-schizoid and autistic-contiguous poles. In the never-attained ideal of the ...
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In a paranoid-schizoid mode, the experience of loving and hating the same object generates intolerable anxiety, which constitutes the principal psychological dilemma to be managed. This problem is handled in large part by separating ...
In a paranoid-schizoid mode, the experience of loving and hating the same object generates intolerable anxiety, which constitutes the principal psychological dilemma to be managed. This problem is handled in large part by separating ...
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... loss of the object due to one's destructiveness) constitutes a manic defense. Loewald (1979) has described the way in which self-punishment can be similarly used to dissipate feelings that threaten to become an experience of guilt.
... loss of the object due to one's destructiveness) constitutes a manic defense. Loewald (1979) has described the way in which self-punishment can be similarly used to dissipate feelings that threaten to become an experience of guilt.
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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 | |
7 | |
Creating Analytic Significance | |
Cautionary Tales | |
Anxious Questioning | |
8 | |
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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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Primitive Edge of Experience |
| Author | Thomas Ogden |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2018 |
| ISBN | 0429921829, 9780429921827 |
| Length | 254 pages |
| Subjects | › Psychology / General Psychology / Mental Health |
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