Thanatos, Shame, and Other Essays

On the Psychology of Destructiveness

By (author) Pentti Ikonen By (author) Eero Rechardt

Book cover: Thanatos, Shame, and Other Essays

Extent: 240, 240 pages

Publisher: The Harris Meltzer Trust

Subjects: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, & Psychotherapy

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(June 2010)

ISBN: 9781855756489

5.94 x 9.06 inches

Price: $36.00

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This book, a classic in Finnish psychoanalytic thinking, presents central features of the work of leading psychoanalysts Pentti Ikonen and Eero Rechardt for an English-speaking audience, focussing on the integration of Freud’s final drive theory with object relations theory.

This important work has become a classic in Finnish psychoanalytic thinking. It is one of the cornerstones in the training of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in our country. The authors’ deep understanding has clarified Freud’s final drive-instinct theory together with important additions that are a great help in integrating it with object relations theory

Preface

PART I: IS PSYCHOANALYSIS A SCIENCE?

Chapter One
Psychoanalytical knowledge

PART II: THE VICISSITUDES OF THANATOS

Chapter Two
On the psychology of destructiveness

Chapter Three
Thanatos, destructiveness, and binding

Chapter Four
On psychic binding

Chapter Five
Binding, narcissistic pathology, and the psychoanalytic process

Chapter Six
How to interpret the death drive

Chapter Seven
The origin of shame and its vicissitudes

PART III: ON THE SCENE OF THE PSYCHE

Chapter Eight
On the universal nature of primal scene fantasies

Chapter Nine
Reflections on the meaning of constructions

PART IV: THE SYMBOLIC PROCESS 

Chapter Ten
A short introduction to the symbolic process

Chapter Eleven
Approaches to the symbolic process
Pentti Ikonen

Chapter Twelve
The symbolic process and the self
Eero Rechardt

References
Index

  • By (author) Pentti Ikonen
  • By (author) Eero Rechardt

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