ABSTRACT
The papers of Edna O’Shaughnessy are among the finest to be found in psychoanalytic writing. Her work is unified not so much by its subject matter, which is diverse, but by her underlying preoccupations, including the nature of psychic reality and subjectivity, and the psychic limits of endurance and reparation.
Here a selection of her work, edited and with an introduction by Richard Rusbridger, is brought together in a collection which demonstrates the contribution that O’Shaughnessy has made to many areas of psychoanalysis, from personality organisations, the superego, psychic refuges and the Oedipus complex to the subject of whether a liar can be psychoanalysed. Inquiries in Psychoanalysis is a record of clinical work and thinking over sixty years of psychoanalytic practice with children and adults.
This wide-ranging selection of work will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and students.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |15 pages
Introduction
part |253 pages
Papers
chapter |13 pages
The Absent Object
chapter |4 pages
Interminably A Patient
chapter |19 pages
A Clinical Study Of A Defensive Organisation
chapter |14 pages
A Commemorative Essay On W. R. Bion'S Theory Of Thinking
chapter |15 pages
Words and Working Through
chapter |16 pages
The Invisible Oedipus Complex
chapter |7 pages
Seeing with Meaning and Emotion
chapter |15 pages
Can a Liar Be Psychoanalysed?
chapter |14 pages
Enclaves and Excursions
chapter |15 pages
Psychosis: Not Thinking In a Bizarre World
chapter |14 pages
What Is a Clinical Fact?
chapter |14 pages
Relating To The Superego
chapter |11 pages
Dreaming and not Dreaming
chapter |7 pages
Whose Bion?
chapter |10 pages
Mental Connectedness
chapter |14 pages
Intrusions
chapter |13 pages
On Gratitude
chapter |12 pages
Where Is Here? When Is Now?
part |27 pages
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