Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis,

Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History and Trauma (IPA: Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications)

This book spans the work that the author has done in the last 15 years concerning the issue of the impact of external reality on psychic reality. During those years many analysts, especially in the English-speaking countries and Germany, where historic events loomed large in the lives of their patients, have turned from the exclusive emphasis on psychic reality to greater attention to the traumatic impact of external reality. Considering that this has led to a body of psychoanalytic writings in which events are used to give a name to the pathology, incest survivor, Holocaust survivor, transmission of trauma, to name a few, it has implicitly created two categories of patients: the patients who, because of their failed solutions for conflict, are regarded as active agents in their own suffering, and those who are victimized by events they endured passively, thus implicitly taking away from the second group the focus on conflicting motivations. This in turn has led to the adoption of some of Freudâ€™s concepts that lack a dynamic dimension. First among those is the repetition compulsion which supposedly causes events to be repeated because they happened. The concept has its place, but, if not properly understood, risks to by-pass the analysis of unconscious guilt as a motivating factor in repetition. These factors have not been sufficiently explored in the analytic literature, and over the years the author has written a number of articles that try to distinguish important elements that contribute to the psychoanalytic exploration of trauma. This book is an important summation and further development of that work.

Country	USA
Author	Marion Michele Oliner
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Karnac Books
EAN	9781780491264
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	1780491263
Label	Karnac Books
Manufacturer	Karnac Books
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	200
PublicationDate	2012-08-28
Publisher	Karnac Books
Studio	Karnac Books
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History and Trauma (IPA: Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications)

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