The primitive edge of experience

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Structure of Experience; Experience in a Depressive Mode; Experience in a Paranoid-Schizoid Mode; The Autistic-Contiguous Mode of Generating Experience; Chapter 3: The Autistic-Contiguous Position; Primitive Organization of Experience; The Nature of Sensation-Dominated Experience; Autistic-Contiguous Experience and Pathological Autism; The Nature of Autistic-Contiguous Anxiety; Autistic-Contiguous Modes of Defense; Internalization in the Autistic-Contiguous Position. Autistic-Contiguous Anxiety and the Binding Power of SymbolsChapter 4: The Schizoid Condition; Schizoid Phenomena; The Contributions of Winnicott and Guntrip; Clinical Illustration: If a Tree Falls in the Forest; Chapter 5: The Transitional Oedipal Relationship in Female Development; The Female Oedipal Narrative; The Developmental Context; The Transitional Relationship; Psychopathology and the Oedipal Transitional Relationship; A Reevaluation of the Freudian Female Oedipal Narrative; Transference-Countertransference Implications; Implications for the Development of Gender Identity. Chapter 6: The Threshold of the Male Oedipus ComplexFreud's Perspective; The Scylla and Charybdis of the Threshold of the Male Oedipus Complex; The Organization of Sexual Meaning; Transitional Oedipal Object Relatedness; Clinical Illustration; The Absence of Thirdness; Chapter 7: The Initial Analytic Meeting; Creating Analytic Significance; Sustaining Psychological Strain in the Analytic Setting; Cautionary Tales; The Timing of Transference Interpretations; Analytic Space; Anxious Questioning; Creating a History; Concluding Comments; Chapter 8: Misrecognitions and the Fear of not Knowing. A Theoretical BackgroundA Developmental Perspective; The Structuralization of Misrecognition; Misrecognition of Affect: A Clinical Illustration; Misrecognition as a Dimension of Eating Disorders; Psychological Change in the Area of Recognition and Misrecognition; References; Index