On Hallucination, Intuition, and the Becoming of ‘O’

By (author) Eric Rhode

Book cover: On Hallucination, Intuition, and the Becoming of ‘O’

Extent: 242 pages

Publisher: Karnac Books

Subjects: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, & Psychotherapy

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2018)

ISBN: 9780993510069

8.5 x 5.39 inches

Price: $35.00

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A scholarly adventure in post-Kleinian psychoanalytic thinking from which emerges a strong influence from the work of Bion.

Foreword by Gilead Nachmani, PhD PART I: The Caesura as Transparent Mirror: W. R. Bion and the Contact Barrier 1.The Definitions of Mind and Body 2. A System that Continues to Function However Damaged it May Be 3. 'The Powerful Inanity of Events' 4. The Relationship of the Beta Screen to the Theory of Catastrophic Change 5. Bion, Levi-Strauss, and Hallucination as 'Pure' Culture PART II: Optic Glass: The Nipple-Tongue as Preconception 6. The Role of Hallucination in a Mother-Infant Observation 7. 'The Cosmos is a Mirror in which Everything is Reflected' 8. The Disappearing Tennis-Net 9. From a Paternal to a Maternal Conception of the Transference 10. The Paranoid-Schizoid Version of the Imaginary Twin 11. Transition Concepts PART III: Transformation in Hallucinosis and the Institution of Divine Kingship 12. Annihilation and Transformation in Hallucinosis 13. Catastrophic Fusions: Kings and Diviners Among the Moundang of Chad 14. The Dread of Verticality that Underlies a World of Space and Time 15. The Body as Cosmic Impress 16. The Divine King and the Macrocosm of Destruction 17. The Divine King as Microcosm of Creation 18. The Double Labyrinth 19. The Duration of the Body and the Reverberation of the Image 20. The Fetish as Substitute for the Organ of Psychic Perception PART IV: The Play Shakespeare Did Not Write 21. The Gifts of the Saturnalian King 22. The Opening and Closing of Shutters on a Window 23. The Hidden God 24. The Relationship of Swallowing and the Prehensive Object 25. Absence of Breath and Cordelia's Mirror 26. The World's Deep Midnight

  • By (author) Eric Rhode