CONTENTS
Introduction: The Psychoanalytic Century
CHAPTER 1: JEWISH FAMILIES, EUROPEAN STORIES: A DEPRESSION AND ITS AFTERMATH
CHAPTER 2: ANALYZING HER CHILDREN: FROM SCANDAL TO PLAY TECHNIQUE
The Unconscious Knowledge (of the Child) Versus the Enlightenment (of the Parents)
Inventing Stories with Erich/Fritz
Plain Words, Negative Transference, and Decondensation of the Phantasy
CHAPTER 3: THE PRIORITY AND INTERIORITY OF THE OTHER AND THE BOND: THE BABY IS BORN WITH HIS OBJECTS
The “Paranoid-Schizoid Position”: Splitting and Projective Identification
The Depressive Position: The Whole Object, the Psychic Realm, and Reparation
CHAPTER 4: ANXIETY OR DESIRE: IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE DEATH DRIVE
Eros Absorbed into Thanatos: Sadistic Devouring and the Anal Attack
The Grief that Affords Us a Soul
The Power of Envy and a Wager on Gratitude
Petits Fours, kleine Frou, Frau Klein
CHAPTER 5: A MOST EARLY AND TYRANNICAL SUPEREGO
From the Earliest Stages of the Oedipus Conflict
Neither Boys nor Girls Can Avoid It
Persecuting Idealizations and “Concretizations”
The Case of Richard: Goodness Versus Hitler-Ubu
CHAPTER 6: THE CULT OF THE MOTHER OR AN ODE TO MATRICIDE? THE PARENTS
The Perpetually Renewed Breast
The “Combined” or Coupled Parents
CHAPTER 7: THE PHANTASY AS A METAPHOR INCARNATE
The Representative Before Representation
“Prenarrative Envelopes” Between Anxiety and Language
Do Women Have an Affinity for the Archaic?
CHAPTER 8: THE IMMANENCE OF SYMBOLISM AND ITS DEGREES
From Equations to Symbols: Dick
The Post-Kleinian Approach to the Archaic and the Primary
Cultural Acts of Sublimation: Art and Literature
CHAPTER 9: FROM THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO THE FILIGREE OF THE LOYAL AND DISLOYAL
Peace and War Among the Ladies
CHAPTER 10: THE POLITICS OF KLEINIANISM
From the Great Controversial Discussions to the Independents
The Left and the Feminists Take Hold of the “Inspired Gut Butcher”