Gravitational Psyche: Further Developments of the Psychoanalysis of Unstable Objects

Author(s) : Anderson Todd

Gravitational Psyche: Further Developments of the Psychoanalysis of Unstable Objects

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2026
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 302
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98504
  • ISBN 13 : 9781041172536
  • ISBN 10 : 1041172532

Table of Contents


Part I: Orbits and Singularities—Framing the Psyche Beyond Newton and Freud
1. The Original Paradox, Refracted
2. The Curvature of Psychic Space: Orbit, Structure, and Symbolic Distortion
3. Chronotopes of the Self: Structural Temporality and Character Style

Part II: Gravity and Symptom—From Repetition to Field: Freud’s Echo, Klein’s Trace
4. Orbiting the Invisible: Symptom as Gravitational Trace
5. The Analyst’s Gravity: Transference and Countertransference Fields

Part III: Recursion and Return—Time Looped and Folded: From Drive to Pattern
6. Echoes and Foldings: Repetition Compulsion and Recursive Return
7. The Holographic Mind: Collapse, Condensation, and Symbolic Atmosphere

Part IV: Form and Emptiness—From Klein’s Void to the Curvature of Form
8. Nonduality in the Split Mind: Perceiving the Ground
9. Symbolizing the Light: Emptiness, Form, and the Clinical Imagination
10. Part Objects and the Field Form Interlude: Gravitational Emptiness—Four Psychic Atmospheres
11. Two Tongues for One Mind—Buddhism and Psychoanalysis

Part V: Beyond Frame—Freud’s Horizon and the Analyst’s Cosmos
12. The Analysts in the Cosmos
13. A Mode of Knowing That Does Not Collapse
14. Afterword: What It Has Meant to Write This Book
15. Coda: Symbol of the Singularity

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