Belief and Imagination: Explorations in Psychoanalysis

Author(s) : Ronald Britton

Belief and Imagination: Explorations in Psychoanalysis

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 1998
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 240
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 6360
  • ISBN 13 : 9780415194389
  • ISBN 10 : 0415194385

Table of Contents


Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. Belief and Psychic Reality
2. Naming and Containing
3. Oedipus in the Depressive Position
4. Subjectivity, Objectivity and Triangular Space
4. The Suspension of Belief and the 'As-if' Syndrome
5. Before and After the Depressive Position
6. Complacency in Analysis and Everyday Life
7. The Analust's Intuition: Selected Fact or Overvalued Idea? Daydream, Phantasy and Fiction
7. The Other Room and Poetic Space. Wordsworth: The Loss of Presence and the Presence of Loss
8. Existential Anxiety: Rilke's Duino Elegies
9. Milton's Destructive Narcissist or Blake's True Self? William Blake and Epistemic Narcissism
10. Publication Anxiety

References
Index

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