ABSTRACT

This book is concerned with the primitive edge of human experience. It explores the idea that human experience is the product of the dialectical interplay of three modes of generating experience: the depressive, the paranoid-schizoid, and the autistic-contiguous.

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|38 pages

The Structure of Experience

chapter 3|35 pages

The Autistic-Contiguous Position

chapter 4|26 pages

The Schizoid Condition

chapter 6|28 pages

The Threshold of the Male Oedipus Complex

chapter 7|26 pages

The Initial Analytic Meeting