{"product_id":"symbiosis-and-ambiguity-9780415464628","title":"Symbiosis and Ambiguity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSymbiosis and Ambiguity\u003c\/em\u003e is the first English edition of the classic study of early object relations by influential Argentinian psychoanalyst José Bleger (1922-1972). It is rooted in Kleinian thinking and rich in clinical material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBleger''s thesis is that starting from primitive undifferentiation, prior to the paranoid-schizoid position described by Klein, autism and symbiosis co-exist as narcissistic relations in a syncretic agglutinated' nucleus. In symbiosis part of the mind is deposited in an external person or situation; in autism it is deposited in the patient''s own mind or body. The nucleus is ambiguous and persists in adults as the psychotic part of the personality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSymbiosis tends to immobilise the analytic process, so the analyst must mobilise, fragment and discriminate the agglutinated nucleus, whose ambiguity tends to blunt' persecutory situations. The psychoanalytic setting functions as a silent refuge for the psychotic part of the personality, whe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEtchegoyen , Preface.  Bleger, Churcher,  Editorial Introduction. Prologue. Part I: On Symbiosis . Study of Dependence-Independence in Relation to the Process of Projection-Introjection. Symbiosis in Warrior’s Rest. Modalities of Object Relations. Study of the Psychotic Part of the Personality. Part II: On Ambiguity . Ambiguity in Psychoanalytic Clinical Work. Psychoanalysis of The Psychoanalytic Setting. Part III: Appendix . Ambivalence and Ambiguity: The Background Literature. Commentary on ‘The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words'. Ambiguity and Syncretism in Freud’s ‘The Uncanny’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51585778024791,"sku":"9780415464628","price":44.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415464628.jpg?v=1756489192","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/symbiosis-and-ambiguity-9780415464628","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}