Rediscovering Psychoanalysis by Ogden, Thomas H. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Rediscovering psychoanalysis

2. On talking-as-dreaming

A theoretical context Fragments of two analyses

Talking-as-dreaming formerly undreamt dreams Talking-as-dreaming oneself into existence

Concluding comments

3. On psychoanalytic supervision

A theoretical context

Dreaming the analytic experience Dreaming up the analysand in the supervisory setting The interplay of the analytic experience and the supervisory experience The supervisory frame

Four clinical illustrations

1. Dreaming a patient into existence 2. On the importance of having time to waste 3. Dr Searles 4. A nightmare from which the analyst could not wake up

Concluding remarks

4. On teaching psychoanalysis

The setting A way of reading analytic writing Clinical teaching as collective dreaming Reading poetry and fiction as a form of “ear training” The art of learning to forget what one has learned

5. Elements of analytic style: Bion’s clinical seminars

Three clinical seminars

Concluding comments

6. Bion’s four principles of mental functioning

Bion’s theory of thinking

Bion’s clinical thinking Concluding comments

7. Reading Loewald: Oedipus reconceived

Freud’s theory of the Oedipus complex The tension between influence and originality More than a repression Parricide: a loving murder The metamorphic internalization of the oedipal parents The transitional incestuous object relationship Loewald and Freud

8. Reading Harold Searles

Oedipal love in the countertransference Unconscious identification Searles and Bion

The container-contained The human need for truth Reconceiving the relationship of conscious and unconscious experience

References Index