Unconscious Phantasy

Unconscious Phantasy
Author: Riccardo Steiner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2018-03-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429923465

'There is no doubt that "phantasy" or "unconscious phantasy", as it started to be used in the English translation of Freud's work in the late 1920s and 1930s to differentiate it from "fantasy", is one of the most important theoretical and clinical concepts of psychoanalysis.'- Riccardo Steiner, from the IntroductionIn this outstanding new collection, the vital concept of unconscious phantasy is debated and examined by such luminaries as Joseph and Anne-Marie Sandler, Jean Laplanche, J-B Pontalis, Susan Isaacs and Hanna Segal. Sigmund Freud's seminal paper Formulations of the Two Principles of Mental Functioning heads an impressive collection and provides a welcome reminder of the beginnings of this theory. The inherent difficulties in translating Freud's work have contributed to the conflicting interpretations that are so illustrated so well in the following articles. By collecting together such diverse opinions of Freudians, Kleinians, Lacanians and Neuroscientists on unconscious phantasy, Riccardo Steiner has created a fresh and compelling elucidation of this fascinating subject.

Phantasy, Image Consciousness, and Memory (1898-1925)

Phantasy, Image Consciousness, and Memory (1898-1925)
Author: Edmund Husserl
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 744
Release: 2006-01-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1402026420

This is the first English translation of Husserliana XXIII, the volume in the critical edition of Edmund Husserl's works that gathers together a rich array of posthumous texts on representational consciousness. The lectures and sketches comprising this work make available the most profound and comprehensive Husserlian account of image consciousness. They explore phantasy in depth, and furnish nuanced accounts of perception and memory.

Film, Form and Phantasy

Film, Form and Phantasy
Author: M. O'Pray
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2004-08-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230535771

This book explores the ideas of the neglected English aesthetician and art historian, Adrian Stokes. Stokes's Kleinian-based concepts of carving and modelling are analysed in relation to film, arguing that they replace the traditional notions of realism and montage in film theory and provide a set of aesthetics which encompasses mainstream and 'art' cinema. This Kleinian psychoanalytic approach is offered to the films of Eisenstein, Rossellini, Hitchcock and others.

Dream, Phantasy and Art

Dream, Phantasy and Art
Author: Hanna Segal
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2006-05-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134978634

Hanna Segal's work, especially on symbolism, aesthetics, dreams, and the exploration of psychotic thinking, has established her as an outstanding figure in psychoanalysis, particularly in psychoanalysis of the Kleinian tradition. In Dream, Phantasy and Art she reworks her ideas on these topics and brings them vividly alive in a new integration which links them afresh to the work of Freud, Klein, and Bion. Throughout the book, the clinical illustrations the author has selected brilliantly spotlight the theory, touching the imagination, and fixing even the most difficult ideas permanently in the reader's mind. In a mutually enhancing relationship, theory and clinical example are combined, and then applied, to create the author's new and original theories of art and aesthetics. As Betty Joseph notes in her foreword, Segal's writing, and in particular this book, does much to enrich psychoanalysis not only because of the clarity and intelligence but also because of the depth and breadth of her interests and her clinical imagination.

Time, Space and Phantasy

Time, Space and Phantasy
Author: Rosine Jozef Perelberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2008
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Children's Phantasies

Children's Phantasies
Author: Otto Weininger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2018-03-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429911904

Otto Weininger illustrates the manifestations of unconscious phantasy in children - normal, neurotic or psychotic - in various settings such as playgroups, ordinary schools or special schools for disturbed children, the family milieu or play therapy. He uses Melanie Klein's developmental theory and shows the evolutions of phantasies in their content, in the way they are symbolizes, and their functioning in terms of the child's evolution from the paranoid-schizoid position to the depressive position and Oedipus complex.

Phantasy in Everyday Life

Phantasy in Everyday Life
Author: Julia Segal
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429917252

Over the past fifty years dramatic ideas and discoveries have arisen out of the work of analysts. In Phantasy in Everyday Life the author is mainly concerned with Melanie Klein's contribution to the field and with everyday application of her theories. Central to the author's theme is Melanie Klein's concept of phantasy - the unconscious fantasies which control our assumptions, our thoughts, our emotions and our behavior. The first half of the book is concerned with daily life; the second more with theoretical issues. Written from her direct experience,the author's work will prove invaluable both to professionals and to the wider general public.

The Work of Hanna Segal

The Work of Hanna Segal
Author: Hanna Segal
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1977-07-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1461631971

Segal establishes herself as one of the most productive and sensitive clinical psychoanalysts in the field today. Using techniques based on the work of both Freud and Klein, she shows a consistent interest in working with patients presenting the most severe type of psychopathology, as is evident in this volume of her clinical and theoretical papers.

How Change and Identity Coexist in Personal Individuality

How Change and Identity Coexist in Personal Individuality
Author: Bianca Bellini
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030814513

This book purports to devise a pattern of the self that accounts for the role that change and identity play in self-shaping. It focuses on the process through which we discover, know and shape ourselves and wonder whether there is a core of our individuality and how we should account for it. The core is described along with its range of possible variations and its constraints. This volume provides arguments on how individual essence – far from being something monolithic – is inherently dynamic. The text delves into the link between change and identity in self-shaping, arguably the fundamental issue of personal individuality. Different theories and standpoints are addressed and scrutinized. Descriptive phenomenology will enter along with Max Scheler’s stance on axiology, as well as the keystones that account for self-shaping. This book appeals to students and researchers working on the implications of phenomenology for self identification and personal individuality.