Man’s Picture of His World and Three Papers

By (author) Roger Money-Kyrle Edited by Meg Harris Williams

Book cover: Man’s Picture of His World and Three Papers

Extent: 288, 288 pages

Publisher: The Harris Meltzer Trust

Subjects: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, & Psychotherapy

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(March 2014)

ISBN: 9781782202257

5.94 x 9.02 inches

Price: $42.00

In stock

This new edition of Roger Money-Kyrle’s classic work is published together with three of his late papers, ‘Cognitive Development’, ‘The aim of psychoanalysis’, and ‘On being a psychoanalyst’. Its intention is to introduce new readers to this key Kleinian thinker, whose influence has been quiet and uncontroversial but deep and formati


This new edition of Roger Money-Kyrle’s classic work is published together with three of his late papers, ‘Cognitive development’, ‘The aim of psychoanalysis’, and ‘On being a psychoanalyst’. Its intention is to introduce new readers to this key Kleinian thinker, whose influence has been quiet and uncontroversial but deep and formative. The book also includes Donald Meltzer’s discussion of the paper on ‘Cognitive development’.

Foreword
Meg Harris Williams

Introduction: On being a psychoanalyst (1977)

Preface to Man’s Picture of His World

PART I

1. The nature of the evidence
2. Instinct and evolution
3. Instinct in the child
4. The construction of our world-model
5. Distortions in our world-model

PART II

6. Beliefs and evaluations
7. On aesthetics
8. On ethics
9. Morals and the problem of political agreement
10. On avoidable sources of conflict
11. On political philosophies

PART III

12. Cognitive development (1968)
13. The aim of psychoanalysis (1971)

Appendix 1: Roger Money-Kyrle
Donald Meltzer

Appendix 2: Does Money-Kyrle’s concept of misconception have any unique descriptive power?
Donald Meltzer

References
Index

  • By (author) Roger Money-Kyrle
  • Edited by Meg Harris Williams