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The Life-Death Instinct: Feeling Through Creative-Clinical Moments

Author(s) : Neil Maizels

Table of Contents

1. Inoculative identification in Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train
2. Self-envy, the womb and the nature of goodness – a reappraisal of the death instinct
3. The destructive confounding of intra-uterine and post-uterine feeding as a factor against emotional growth
4. What could be better than nuclear warfare?: An essay on the quest for eirenarchic survival
5. Dreams Grown False: The ‘"cannibalization"’ of alpha function
6. The role of Disidentification in the growth of personality and during the analytic termination phase
7. Working through, or beyond the depressive position? Achievements and defences of a Spiritual position
8. "I'm Miss Red!" Reworking a premature weaning in a lonely young girl
9. Loneliness and its amelioration through transformations of the Internal Father
10. Two Vices and a film review
I. Sometimes a cigar ... on smokers and non-smokers
II. The significance of Swearing as a proto-language
III. Life and Death of a Planet in Melancholia – a film about depressive cynicism
11. The wrecking and re-pairing of the internal couple: in clinical work and in Shakespeare’s Othello and The Winter's Tale
12. Trees of knowledge in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders
13. Distraction – as both an important manic defense, and yet also as a creative unconscious consolation when facing immense depressive or disintegrative states
14. Narcissus Rejects: Unbearable Beauty and the urge to destroy it, in The Comfort of Strangers
15. Inconclusive Conclusion: The resilient persistence of the life-death instinct through variations in its relationships with the drive to death