ABSTRACT

This book provides an account of the chequered course of international psychoanalysis over the last 100 years, with a lucid critical treatment of the major theoretical developments, illustrated by clinical examples drawn from the author's own vast experience.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter Two|12 pages

The theory of repression

chapter Chapter Three|22 pages

Freud’s theory of mind reformulated:

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

chapter Chapter Four|18 pages

The new schema of the mental apparatus and its antecedents

chapter Chapter Five|8 pages

A short detour around Freud’s theories of anxiety

chapter Chapter Seven|12 pages

Psychoses and psychoanalytic theories of development

chapter Chapter Eight|14 pages

Theories of narcissistic object relations

chapter Chapter Nine|9 pages

On the formal aspects of psychotic phenomena

chapter Chapter Ten|26 pages

Theory and technique in psychoanalysis

chapter Chapter Eleven|10 pages

Is there away forward?