ABSTRACT
Lichtenberg collates and summarizes recent findings about the first two years of life in order to examine their implications for contemporary psychoanalysis. He explores the implications of these data for the unfolding sense of self, and then draws on these data to reconceptualize the analytic situation and to formulate an experiential account of the therapeutic action of analysis.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|39 pages
The Neonate
chapter Chapter One|25 pages
The Challenge for Psychoanalytic Theory from Neonate Research
chapter Chapter Two|12 pages
How Can We Examine the Beginning Sense of Self and Object?
part II|54 pages
The First Year
chapter Chapter Three|13 pages
Toward an Adaptational Perspective on the First Year
chapter Chapter Four|12 pages
Do We Need to Postulate Self-Object Differentiation in the First Year?
chapter Chapter Five|16 pages
Additional Timetable Considerations
chapter Chapter Six|11 pages
Reflections on Id and Ego in the First Year
part III|53 pages
The Second Year
chapter Chapter Seven|17 pages
The Beginnings of an Imaging Capacity and Sign-Signal Informational Exchange
chapter Chapter Eight|8 pages
Speculations on the Self-as-a-Whole as an “Emergent Property”
chapter Chapter Nine|10 pages
The Effect of Assertiveness and Genital Awareness on the Emergent Self
chapter Chapter Ten|16 pages
Symbolic Representation and Consolidation of Sense of Self
part IV|91 pages
Applications