Research Catalog

Title

Character analysis. Newly translated by Vincent R. Carfagno.

Author

Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957

Publication

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1972]

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Additional Authors

Carfagno, Vincent R.

Description

xxvii, 545 p. illus.; 21 cm.

Summary

TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART 1: Technique. 1 Some Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique. 2 The Economic Viewpoint in the Theory of Analytic Therapy. 3 On the Technique of Interpretation and Of Resistance Analysis. 4 On the Technique of Character Analysis. 5 Indications and Dangers of Character Analysis. 6 On the Handling of the Transference. PART 2: Theory of Character Formation. 7 The Characterological Resolution of the Infantile Sexual Conflict. 8 The Genital Character and the Neurotic Character. 9 Childhood phobia and Character Formation. 10 Some Circumscribed Character Forms. 11 The Masochistic Character. 12 Some Observations on the Basic Conflict Between Need and Outer World. PART 3: From Psychoanalysis to Orgone Biophysics. 13 Psychic Contact and Vegetative Current. 14 The Expressive Language of the Living. 15 The Schizophrenic Split. 16 The Emotional Plague. Index.

Uniform Title

Charakteranalyse. English

Alternative Title

Charakteranalyse.

Subject

• Psychoanalysis
• Sex (Psychology)

Note

• Translation of Charakteranalyse, and of Psychischer Kontakt und vegetative Strömung. To these have been added two articles: The expressive language of the living, and The schizophrenic split.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0374120749

LCCN

^^^70163663^//r83

OCLC

• 513859
• SCSB-12912048

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library