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Belief and Imagination

Explorations in Psychoanalysis

Belief and Imagination

Explorations in Psychoanalysis

ByRonald Britton
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1998
eBook Published 2 September 2003
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9780203360811
Pages 240 pages
eBook ISBN 9781134649150
SubjectsBehavioral Sciences
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Britton, R. (1998). Belief and Imagination. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203360811
ABOUT THIS BOOK

Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award!

Belief and Imagination brings together Ronald Britton's writing on these subjects over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective. The book covers:

  • The status of phantasies in an individuals mind - are they facts or possibilities?
  • How the notions of objectivity and subjectivity are interrelated and have their origins in the Oedipal triangle
  • How phantasies which are held to be products of the imagination, can be accounted for in psychoanalytic terms.

Britton also examines the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing, and the ways in which belief, imagination and reality are explored in the works of Wordsworth, Rilke, Milton and Blake.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|11 pages
Belief and psychic reality
View abstract
chapter 2|10 pages
Naming and containing
View abstract
chapter 3|12 pages
Oedipus in the depressive position
View abstract
chapter 4|18 pages
Subjectivity, objectivity and triangular space
View abstract
chapter 5|10 pages
The suspension of belief and the ‘as-if’ syndrome
View abstract
chapter 6|13 pages
Before and after the depressive position: Ps(n)→D(n)→Ps(n+1)
View abstract
chapter 7|15 pages
Complacency in analysis and everyday life
View abstract
chapter 8|12 pages
The analyst’s intuition: selected fact or overvalued idea?
View abstract
chapter 9|11 pages
Daydream, phantasy and fiction
View abstract
chapter 10|8 pages
The other room and poetic space
View abstract
chapter 11|18 pages
Wordsworth: the loss of presence and the presence of loss
View abstract
chapter 12|20 pages
Existential anxiety: Rilke’s Duino Elegies
View abstract
chapter 13|12 pages
Milton’s destructive narcissist or Blake’s true self?
View abstract
chapter 14|19 pages
William Blake and epistemic narcissism
View abstract
chapter 15|14 pages
Publication anxiety
View abstract

Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award!

Belief and Imagination brings together Ronald Britton's writing on these subjects over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective. The book covers:

  • The status of phantasies in an individuals mind - are they facts or possibilities?
  • How the notions of objectivity and subjectivity are interrelated and have their origins in the Oedipal triangle
  • How phantasies which are held to be products of the imagination, can be accounted for in psychoanalytic terms.

Britton also examines the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing, and the ways in which belief, imagination and reality are explored in the works of Wordsworth, Rilke, Milton and Blake.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|11 pages
Belief and psychic reality
View abstract
chapter 2|10 pages
Naming and containing
View abstract
chapter 3|12 pages
Oedipus in the depressive position
View abstract
chapter 4|18 pages
Subjectivity, objectivity and triangular space
View abstract
chapter 5|10 pages
The suspension of belief and the ‘as-if’ syndrome
View abstract
chapter 6|13 pages
Before and after the depressive position: Ps(n)→D(n)→Ps(n+1)
View abstract
chapter 7|15 pages
Complacency in analysis and everyday life
View abstract
chapter 8|12 pages
The analyst’s intuition: selected fact or overvalued idea?
View abstract
chapter 9|11 pages
Daydream, phantasy and fiction
View abstract
chapter 10|8 pages
The other room and poetic space
View abstract
chapter 11|18 pages
Wordsworth: the loss of presence and the presence of loss
View abstract
chapter 12|20 pages
Existential anxiety: Rilke’s Duino Elegies
View abstract
chapter 13|12 pages
Milton’s destructive narcissist or Blake’s true self?
View abstract
chapter 14|19 pages
William Blake and epistemic narcissism
View abstract
chapter 15|14 pages
Publication anxiety
View abstract
CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK

Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award!

Belief and Imagination brings together Ronald Britton's writing on these subjects over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective. The book covers:

  • The status of phantasies in an individuals mind - are they facts or possibilities?
  • How the notions of objectivity and subjectivity are interrelated and have their origins in the Oedipal triangle
  • How phantasies which are held to be products of the imagination, can be accounted for in psychoanalytic terms.

Britton also examines the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing, and the ways in which belief, imagination and reality are explored in the works of Wordsworth, Rilke, Milton and Blake.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|11 pages
Belief and psychic reality
View abstract
chapter 2|10 pages
Naming and containing
View abstract
chapter 3|12 pages
Oedipus in the depressive position
View abstract
chapter 4|18 pages
Subjectivity, objectivity and triangular space
View abstract
chapter 5|10 pages
The suspension of belief and the ‘as-if’ syndrome
View abstract
chapter 6|13 pages
Before and after the depressive position: Ps(n)→D(n)→Ps(n+1)
View abstract
chapter 7|15 pages
Complacency in analysis and everyday life
View abstract
chapter 8|12 pages
The analyst’s intuition: selected fact or overvalued idea?
View abstract
chapter 9|11 pages
Daydream, phantasy and fiction
View abstract
chapter 10|8 pages
The other room and poetic space
View abstract
chapter 11|18 pages
Wordsworth: the loss of presence and the presence of loss
View abstract
chapter 12|20 pages
Existential anxiety: Rilke’s Duino Elegies
View abstract
chapter 13|12 pages
Milton’s destructive narcissist or Blake’s true self?
View abstract
chapter 14|19 pages
William Blake and epistemic narcissism
View abstract
chapter 15|14 pages
Publication anxiety
View abstract

Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award!

Belief and Imagination brings together Ronald Britton's writing on these subjects over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective. The book covers:

  • The status of phantasies in an individuals mind - are they facts or possibilities?
  • How the notions of objectivity and subjectivity are interrelated and have their origins in the Oedipal triangle
  • How phantasies which are held to be products of the imagination, can be accounted for in psychoanalytic terms.

Britton also examines the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing, and the ways in which belief, imagination and reality are explored in the works of Wordsworth, Rilke, Milton and Blake.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|11 pages
Belief and psychic reality
View abstract
chapter 2|10 pages
Naming and containing
View abstract
chapter 3|12 pages
Oedipus in the depressive position
View abstract
chapter 4|18 pages
Subjectivity, objectivity and triangular space
View abstract
chapter 5|10 pages
The suspension of belief and the ‘as-if’ syndrome
View abstract
chapter 6|13 pages
Before and after the depressive position: Ps(n)→D(n)→Ps(n+1)
View abstract
chapter 7|15 pages
Complacency in analysis and everyday life
View abstract
chapter 8|12 pages
The analyst’s intuition: selected fact or overvalued idea?
View abstract
chapter 9|11 pages
Daydream, phantasy and fiction
View abstract
chapter 10|8 pages
The other room and poetic space
View abstract
chapter 11|18 pages
Wordsworth: the loss of presence and the presence of loss
View abstract
chapter 12|20 pages
Existential anxiety: Rilke’s Duino Elegies
View abstract
chapter 13|12 pages
Milton’s destructive narcissist or Blake’s true self?
View abstract
chapter 14|19 pages
William Blake and epistemic narcissism
View abstract
chapter 15|14 pages
Publication anxiety
View abstract
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK

Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award!

Belief and Imagination brings together Ronald Britton's writing on these subjects over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective. The book covers:

  • The status of phantasies in an individuals mind - are they facts or possibilities?
  • How the notions of objectivity and subjectivity are interrelated and have their origins in the Oedipal triangle
  • How phantasies which are held to be products of the imagination, can be accounted for in psychoanalytic terms.

Britton also examines the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing, and the ways in which belief, imagination and reality are explored in the works of Wordsworth, Rilke, Milton and Blake.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|11 pages
Belief and psychic reality
View abstract
chapter 2|10 pages
Naming and containing
View abstract
chapter 3|12 pages
Oedipus in the depressive position
View abstract
chapter 4|18 pages
Subjectivity, objectivity and triangular space
View abstract
chapter 5|10 pages
The suspension of belief and the ‘as-if’ syndrome
View abstract
chapter 6|13 pages
Before and after the depressive position: Ps(n)→D(n)→Ps(n+1)
View abstract
chapter 7|15 pages
Complacency in analysis and everyday life
View abstract
chapter 8|12 pages
The analyst’s intuition: selected fact or overvalued idea?
View abstract
chapter 9|11 pages
Daydream, phantasy and fiction
View abstract
chapter 10|8 pages
The other room and poetic space
View abstract
chapter 11|18 pages
Wordsworth: the loss of presence and the presence of loss
View abstract
chapter 12|20 pages
Existential anxiety: Rilke’s Duino Elegies
View abstract
chapter 13|12 pages
Milton’s destructive narcissist or Blake’s true self?
View abstract
chapter 14|19 pages
William Blake and epistemic narcissism
View abstract
chapter 15|14 pages
Publication anxiety
View abstract

Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award!

Belief and Imagination brings together Ronald Britton's writing on these subjects over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective. The book covers:

  • The status of phantasies in an individuals mind - are they facts or possibilities?
  • How the notions of objectivity and subjectivity are interrelated and have their origins in the Oedipal triangle
  • How phantasies which are held to be products of the imagination, can be accounted for in psychoanalytic terms.

Britton also examines the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing, and the ways in which belief, imagination and reality are explored in the works of Wordsworth, Rilke, Milton and Blake.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|11 pages
Belief and psychic reality
View abstract
chapter 2|10 pages
Naming and containing
View abstract
chapter 3|12 pages
Oedipus in the depressive position
View abstract
chapter 4|18 pages
Subjectivity, objectivity and triangular space
View abstract
chapter 5|10 pages
The suspension of belief and the ‘as-if’ syndrome
View abstract
chapter 6|13 pages
Before and after the depressive position: Ps(n)→D(n)→Ps(n+1)
View abstract
chapter 7|15 pages
Complacency in analysis and everyday life
View abstract
chapter 8|12 pages
The analyst’s intuition: selected fact or overvalued idea?
View abstract
chapter 9|11 pages
Daydream, phantasy and fiction
View abstract
chapter 10|8 pages
The other room and poetic space
View abstract
chapter 11|18 pages
Wordsworth: the loss of presence and the presence of loss
View abstract
chapter 12|20 pages
Existential anxiety: Rilke’s Duino Elegies
View abstract
chapter 13|12 pages
Milton’s destructive narcissist or Blake’s true self?
View abstract
chapter 14|19 pages
William Blake and epistemic narcissism
View abstract
chapter 15|14 pages
Publication anxiety
View abstract
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