This book comprises a selection of papers initially presented as a series of lectures organised by the Psychoanalytic Forum of the British Psychoanalytical Society. The aims of these lectures was to revisit Freud's key papers 'On Narcissism' (1914) and 'Mourning and Melancholia' (1917), and to look at how they are used in today's thinking about the different stages of life. The contributions, by well known clinicians and theoreticians in their respective fields, capture certain important themes which were put together with two main incentives in mind: firstly, to consider that mourning, depression and narcissism constitute the basic fabric of psychoanalytic theorizing. Secondly, the centrality of these concepts not only illustrate a particular way of understanding mental functioning but, by locating them at different stages of the individual development, offers a wider, more effective and at times different perspective.
This book comprises a selection of papers initially presented as a series of lectures organised by the Psychoanalytic Forum of the British Psychoanalytical Society. The aims of these lectures was to revisit Freud's key papers 'On Narcissism' (1914) and 'Mourning and Melancholia' (1917), and to look at how they are used in today's thinking about the different stages of life. The contributions, by well known clinicians and theoreticians in their respective fields, capture certain important themes which were put together with two main incentives in mind: firstly, to consider that mourning, depression and narcissism constitute the basic fabric of psychoanalytic theorizing. Secondly, the centrality of these concepts not only illustrate a particular way of understanding mental functioning but, by locating them at different stages of the individual development, offers a wider, more effective and at times different perspective.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction , Childhood , Melancholia and mourning in childhood and adolescence: Some reflections on the role of the internal object , The lost child: Whose is the face in the mirror? , Adolescence , Dying to live: Mourning, melancholia and the adolescent process , Narcissism-an adolescent disorder? , Facing towards or turning away from destructive narcissism , Adulthood , Mourning or melancholia: What's love got to do with it? , Reconsidering narcissism from a contemporary, complex psychoanalytic view , A dehumanizing form of prejudice as part of a narcissistic pathological organisation , Old Age , Mourning in later years: Developmental perspectives , His majesty the ego: The tragic narcissism of King Lear's "crawl towards death" , Culture , States of narcissism 1
