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This book is concerned with the primitive edge of human experience. It explores the idea that human experience is the product of the dialectical interplay of three modes of generating experience: the depressive, the paranoid-schizoid, and the autistic-contiguous.

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Introduction -- The Structure of Experience -- The Autistic-Contiguous Position -- The Schizoid Condition -- The Transitional Oedipal Relationship in Female Development -- The Threshold of the Male Oedipus Complex -- The Initial Analytic Meeting -- Misrecognitions and the Fear of Not Knowing

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: 05/07/2019
      ISBN13: 9780367328542, 978-0367328542
      ISBN10: 0367328542
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      Clinical psychology Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book is concerned with the primitive edge of human experience. It explores the idea that human experience is the product of the dialectical interplay of three modes of generating experience: the depressive, the paranoid-schizoid, and the autistic-contiguous.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction -- The Structure of Experience -- The Autistic-Contiguous Position -- The Schizoid Condition -- The Transitional Oedipal Relationship in Female Development -- The Threshold of the Male Oedipus Complex -- The Initial Analytic Meeting -- Misrecognitions and the Fear of Not Knowing

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