Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-46702-9 (ISBN)
Idealised phantasies which involve a timeless universe inevitably lead to disillusion in the face of reality which introduces an awareness of time, ageing, and eventually death. If the illusions are recognised as phantasy rather than treated as fact, the ideal can be internalised as a symbol and serve as a measure of excellence. Steiner shows that the cruelty of truth needs to be recognised, as well as the deceptive nature of illusion, and that relinquishing omnipotence is a critical and difficult developmental task that is relived in analysis.
Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis will be of great use to the psychoanalyst or psychotherapist seeking to understand the patient’s withdrawal into a phantasy world, and the struggle to allow the impact of reality.
John Steiner is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and the author of Psychic Retreats (1993) and Seeing and Being Seen (2011). He has also edited and written introductions to The Oedipus Complex Today (1989), Papers by Hanna Segal (1997), Essays on Herbert Rosenfeld (2008), and Melanie Klein’s Lectures on Technique (2017).
Acknowledgements Credit lines Foreword by Jay Greenberg Introduction 1. The Garden of Eden Illusion: Finding and Losing Paradise 2. Learning from Milton: The Dangerous Gap Between the Real and the Ideal 3. The Brutality of Truth and the Importance of Kindness 4. The Use and Abuse of Omnipotence in the Journey of the Hero 5. Disillusion, Humiliation, and Perversion of the Facts of Life 6. The Unbearability of Being Feminine 7. The Sympathetic Imagination: Keats and the Movement in and out of Projective Identification 8. The Impact of Trauma on the Ability to Face Disillusion 9. Learning from Don Quixote 10. Reconciling Phantasy and Reality: The Redeeming Nature of Irony References Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.05.2020 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 399 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-46702-X / 036746702X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-46702-9 / 9780367467029 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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