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Between emotion and cognition : the generative unconscious

Title: Between emotion and cognition : the generative unconscious / Joseph Newirth.
Author: Newirth, Joseph.
Publication: New York : Other Press, 2003.

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xviii, 255 pages; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-246) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Wrestling with the Demons of the Unconscious xiii -- 1. Failure in the Development of Subjectivity and the Creation of Meaning 1 -- Life Displaced onto the Video Screen 2 -- Changing Psychoanalytic Perspectives 4 -- Creating Meaning: The Symbol in Psychoanalytic Theory 7 -- The Kleinian View of Symbol Formation 9 -- Winnicott's and Bion's Views of Symbol Formation 11 -- Matte Blanco and the Creation of Meaning 13 -- Epistemological Perspectives 14 -- The Neo-Kleinian Perspective: Subjectivity and the Generative Unconscious 16 -- Clinical Illustration: The Dead Hero 18 -- 2. Ego, Self, and Subject: The Person in Structural Theory and Clinical Practice 23 -- The Evolving Definition of the Person in Psychoanalysis 25 -- The Person as Ego 27 -- The Person as Self 30 -- The Person as Subject 37 -- A Comparison of Models: Who Spit in My Soup? 43 -- Clinical Illustration: The Phantom Penis 45 -- 3. Psychic Reality, Omnipotence, and the Development of Subjectivity 49 -- Psychic Reality, Personal Responsibility, and Agency 51 -- Psychic Reality and Multiple Modes of Generating Experience 53 -- Psychic Reality, Grandiosity, and Omnipotence 57 -- Clinical Illustration: The Hidden Assassins 66 -- 4. Projection, Identification, and Enactment 71 -- Introduction: From Instinct to Unconscious Fantasy 71 -- Freud, the Schreber Case, and the Concept of Projection 73 -- Projection, Introjection, and Enactment 78 -- Projective Identification, Enactment, and Clinical Process 83 -- Interpretation, Enactment, and Projective Identification 85 -- Introjective Identification and Enactment 88 -- Clinical Illustration: The Wings of Icarus 93 -- 5. Power in the Psychoanalytic Relationship: Symmetrical, Complementary, Metacomplementary 97 -- The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: From Death Instinct to Power 99 -- Passive and Active Organizations of the Paranoid-Schizoid Position 102 -- Destructiveness, Aggression, and Power in the Development of Identity 104 -- Powerlessness and the Passive Paranoid Position 105 -- Identification and the Paranoid Position 108 -- Power in the Psychoanalytic Relationship 111 -- Bion and the Development of Symmetry in the Analytic Relationship 116 -- Clinical Illustration: A Confusion of Tongues 118 -- 6. The Paranoid Position and the Development of Symbolic Thought 125 -- The Creation of Meaning 125 -- Concrete Thought and the Paranoid Position 127 -- The Capacity for Symbolic Thought 130 -- Symbol Formation and the Psychoanalytic Process 132 -- Models of Symbolic Experience 134 -- Clinical Illustrations: Oscillations Between Concrete and Symbolic Experience 136 -- 7. Transitional Experience and the Development of Symbolic Thought 141 -- Klein, Bion, and Winnicott: A Theory of Thinking 141 -- Winnicott's Clinical and Theoretical Approach 145 -- Enactment and Transitional Experience 150 -- Clinical Application of Transitional Phenomena 152 -- Clinical Illustration: The Greedy Analyst 157 -- 8. The Unconscious and Interpretation 165 -- Interpersonal and Relational Approaches to Unconscious Experience 166 -- The Unconscious in Klein, Winnicott, and Bion 171 -- Dimensions of Unconscious Experience 173 -- Matte Blanco: A Mathematical Model of Conscious and Unconscious Experience 175 -- Clinical Illustration: All Men Are Exploiting Capitalists 178 -- A Neo-Kleinian Model of Thinking 180 -- Psychic Transformation: Words, Reverie, and Symbol Formation 184 -- 9. The Pathology of Consciousness: Asymmetry and Failure in the Development of Subjectivity 187 -- Psychic Transformation 188 -- Clinical Illustration of Asymmetrical and Symmetrical Psychoanalytic Strategies 191 -- The Pathology of Consciousness: A Study of Masochism and Subjectivity 197 -- Interpretations of Masochism 200 -- A Neo-Kleinian Interpretive Approach to Masochism 202 -- 10. The Subject of the Unconscious 209 -- Subjectivity in Contemporary Psychoanalysis 210 -- The Phenomenological Subject 212 -- The Dialectical Subject 219 -- The Generative Subject 225 -- Clinical Illustration: Lost in Space 228 -- Conclusion: The Subject of the Generative Unconscious 231.

ISBN

1590510402
9781590510407
1590512073
9781590512074

LCCN

2003043866

OCLC

ocm51810514
51810514
SCSB-9785813

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library