ABSTRACT

This book collates and clarifies psychoanalytic theories on affect, and how they relate to the clinical process. The author outlines and analyses the most important theories on affect, and examines empirical work presented over the past 100 years, exposing the rigidity of some existing notions.

chapter 1|34 pages

Freud’s Writings on Affect

chapter 3|30 pages

Ego Psychology and the Affects

chapter 10|21 pages

Conclusions and New Directions