ABSTRACT
Drawing on the writings of Freud, Fairbairn, Klein, Sullivan, and Winnicott, Spezzano offers a radical redefinition of the analytic process as the intersubjective elaboration and regulation of affect. The plight of analytic patients, he holds, is imprisonment within crude fantasy elaborations of developmentally significant feeling states. Analytic treatment fosters the patient's capacity to keep alive in consciousness, and hence reflect on, these previously warded-off affective states; it thereby provides a second chance to achieve competence in using feeling states to understand the self within its relational landscape.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |55 pages
Knowing and Talking About Affect
chapter |21 pages
How Psychoanalysts Talk About Affects Now
part |57 pages
The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Thinking About Affects
chapter |25 pages
Freud's Alleged Missing Theory of Affects Revisited
chapter |30 pages
Affect and Its Regulation in Post-Freudian Theory
part |65 pages
The Dialectics of Affect
chapter |29 pages
Excitement, Certainty, Relational Coordination, and Competence
part |52 pages
The Technical Implications of Affect Theory