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Timeless Grandiosity and Eroticised Contempt: Technical Challenges Posed by Cases of Narcissism and Perversion

Author(s) : Michael Shoshani, Author(s) : Batya Shoshani

Table of Contents

Foreword by Salman Akhtar
Acknowledgments and permissions
About the authors
Introduction

PART I
Narcissistic-perverse constellations – clinical material and conceptualizations

CHAPTER ONE
Psychic survival versus psychic freedom: reflections on Symington’s theory of narcissism

CHAPTER TWO
On mother–son twisted coalition: a precursor of perverse psychic organization

CHAPTER THREE
Green eyes, crows and scorpions: envy in the contexts of neediness, separateness, and narcissism

CHAPTER FOUR
Do I dare to be human? The perverse failure to mourn, to think, and to love

CHAPTER FIVE
Fear and shame in an Israeli psychoanalyst and his patient: lessons learned in times of war

CHAPTER SIX
The impact of perverse character pathology on the transference–countertransference matrix of patient, therapist, and supervisor

PART II
Interdisciplinary dialogues

CHAPTER SEVEN
Bitter Moon: The interplay of life and death instincts

CHAPTER EIGHT
When one plus one equals one: truth and blindness in the oedipal myth and the film Incendies

CHAPTER NINE
Borges in my office: the analysis of a man dwelling outside of time

CHAPTER TEN
Heidegger and Freud – explorations into truth, anxiety, and death

References
Index