Belief and Imagination: Explorations in Psychoanalysis (New Library of Psychoanalysis)

✍ Scribed by Ronald Britton

• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 239
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Belief and Imagination brings together Ronald Britton's writing on these subjects over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective. The book covers: The status of phantasies in an individuals mind - are they facts or possibilities? How the notions of objectivity and subjectivity are interrelated and have their origins in the Oedipal triangle How phantasies which are held to be products of the imagination, can be accounted for in psychoanalytic terms. Britton also examines the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing, and the ways in which belief, imagination and reality are explored in the works of Wordsworth, Rilke, Milton and Blake.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Belief and psychic reality......Page 21
Naming and containing......Page 32
Oedipus in the depressive position......Page 42
Subjectivity, objectivity and triangular space......Page 54
The suspension of belief and the 'as-if' syndrome......Page 72
Before and after the depressive position:......Page 82
Complacency in analysis and everyday life......Page 95
The analyst's intuition: selected fact or overvalued idea?......Page 110
Daydream, phantasy and fiction......Page 122
The other room and poetic space......Page 133
Wordsworth: the loss of presence and the presence of loss......Page 141
Existential anxiety: Rilke's Duino Elegies......Page 159
Milton's destructive narcissist or Blake's true self?......Page 179
William Blake and epistemic narcissism......Page 191
Publication anxiety......Page 210
References......Page 224
Index......Page 234