Tragic knots in psychoanalysis new papers on psychoanalysis - Schafer, Roy (Karnac Books, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-175) and index
This is a collection of published and unpublished papers on clinical, theoretical and applied aspects of psychoanalysis that take up various aspects of unconscious mental processes and conflicts and their expression in the clinical transference and countertransference. These expressions are evidenced in frustration, gratitude and benevolence, competing feelings of being cared for and coerced, disturbed and expanded bodily pleasure, cruelty and forgiveness. Included in this book is a brief history of the author's odyssey through several major contributions regarding the language of psychoanalys
COVER; PERMISSIONS; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; PART I ON BASIC CONCEPTS; CHAPTER ONE The reality principle, tragic knots, and the analytic process; CHAPTER TWO Talking to the unconscious: Attunement to unconscious thought; CHAPTER THREE Conflict: conceptualization, practice, problems; PART I I THE INTERNAL WORLD OF CONFLICT AND PHANTASY; CHAPTER FOUR Caring and coercive aspects of the psychoanalytic situation; CHAPTER FIVE The countertransference of feeling frustrated; CHAPTER SIX Taking/including pleasure in the experienced self; CHAPTER SEVEN Gratitude and benevolence