Description
Book SynopsisTracing the line of succession from Sigmund Freud, through Melanie Klein to Fairbairn and Winnicott, Judith Hughes demonstrates the internal development of the British school of psychoanalysis and the coherence of its legacy. Both lay reader and professional will find the book illuminating.
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Reshaping the Psychoanalytic Domain
The British Psychoanalytic Community
Dramatis Personae
The Controversial Discussions
2. Freudian Paradigms
Freud and Fin de Siecle Neurosis
Mind: Psychological Speculation
Freud and Libido Sexualis
Oedipus: A Complex Left Dangling
3. Melanie Klein: The World of Internal Objects
From Instinct to Fantasy
External Objects and the Construction of Inner Worlds
Children within the Clinical Domain
The Paranoid-Schizoid Position
4. W. R. D. Fairbairn: Object Relations and Ego Structures
Freud's Structural Hypothesis: A Flawed Synthesis
"A Revised Psychopathology"
"The Most Formidable Resistance": Harry Guntrip's Analysis
"Back to Hysteria"
5. D. W. Winnicott: Facilitating Environments, Maternal and Analytic
The Good-Enough Mother
The Good-Enough Analyst
The Hands of the Living God
Transitions
6. Conclusion: Paradigms Transformed 172
Notes
Bibliography
Index
