Papers on Psychoanalysis

✍ Scribed by Hans W. Loewald

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 444
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume brings together many of the important writings of Hans Loewald, one of the major theoreticians of psychoanalysis today. Among other subjects, Dr. Loewald discusses the nature of the internalization processes and structure building, the nature the role of reality, pre-oedipal modes of perceiving and the permanence of a “psychotic core” in every personality, the relationship of psychoanalysis to culture, mastery and defense, and the nature of time.
“[Loewald’s] writing is stimulating and challenging, and his work contains some profound psychoanalytic insights.”―Steven J. Ellman, Contemporary Psychology
“Loewald belongs securely in the ranks of major psychoanalytic thinkers. . . . [His book] contains memorable contributions to our theoretical and clinical understanding of a broad range of topics, and should be read by anyone interested in human psychology.”―Sydney E. Pulver, M.D., Review of Psychoanalytic Books
“A pleasure to read.”―F. H. G. Balfour, British Journal of Psychiatry

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Part I. Concepts and Theory
1. EGO AND REALITY
2. THE PROBLEM OF DEFENSE AND THE NEUROTIC INTERPRETATION OF REALITY
3. HYPNOID STATE, REPRESSION, ABREACTION, AND RECOLLECTION
4. SUPEREGO AND TIME
5. BOOK REVIEW AND DISCUSSION: "Psychoanalytic Concepts and the Structural Theory," BY JACOB A. ARLOW AND CHARLES BRENNER. Discussion: Max Schur, "The Regulatory Principles of Mental Functioning"
6. ON INTERNALIZATION
7. SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON REPETITION AND REPETITION COMPULSION
8. ON MOTIVATION AND INSTINCT THEORY
9. THE EXPERIENCE OF TIME
10. PERSPECTIVES ON MEMORY
11. EGO-ORGANIZATION AND DEFENSE
12. PRIMARY PROCESS, SECONDARY PROCESS, AND LANGUAGE
13. INSTINCT THEORY, OBJECT RELATIONS, AND PSYCHIC STRUCTURE FORMATION
Part II. The Psychoanalytic Process
14. ON THE THERAPEUTIC ACTION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
15. INTERNALIZATION, SEPARATION, MOURNING, AND THE SUPEREGO
16. PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY AND THE PSYCHOANALYTIC PROCESS
17. THE TRANSFERENCE NEUROSIS: COMMENTS ON THE CONCEPT AND THE PHENOMENON
18. FREUD'S CONCEPTION OF THE NEGATIVE THERAPEUTIC REACTION, WITH COMMENTS ON INSTINCT THEORY
19. COMMENTS ON SOME INSTINCTUAL MANIFESTATIONS OF SUPEREGO FORMATION
20. BOOK REVIEW: HEINZ KOHUT, THE ANALYSIS OF THE SELF
21. PSYCHOANALYSIS AS AN ART AND THE FANTASY CHARACTER OF THE PSYCHOANALYTIC SITUATION
22. REFLECTIONS ON THE PSYCHOANALYTIC PROCESS AND ITS THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL
23. THE WANING OF THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX
24. BOOK REVIEW ESSAY ON THE FREUD/JUNG LETTERS
Index

✦ Subjects

Psychoanalysis