Belief and Imagination

Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award!

Brings together Ronald Britton's writing on the subject of belief and imagination over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective and examining the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing.

Zusatztext 'Belief and Imagination is a pleasure to read and a reward to study. It confirms the author's status as one of the foremost contributors to modern psychoanalytic theory and practice. It is a clear and insightful book rich in clinical! theoretical! and applied psychoanalytic wisdom! and should be a valuable addition to the library of any psychoanalyst.' - Howard Levine!Journal of the American PsychoanalyticAssociation!Vol. 50! No. 3! 2002'[this book] is in my view both traditional and revolutionary... In the tradition of the post Kleinians! Ronald Britton in Belief and Imagination breaks new ground.' - Marilyn Lawrence! Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy! Vol. 14! No. 1!2000'Many book reviews end with a recommendation to read or to buy the book. In this case a recommendation is not enough. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to keep psychoanalytic thought alive and well.' - Dr Anton Obholzer Informationen zum Autor Ronald Britton is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London, and a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Association. Klappentext Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award!Brings together Ronald Britton's writing on the subject of belief and imagination over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective and examining the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing. Zusammenfassung Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award!Brings together Ronald Britton's writing on the subject of belief and imagination over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective and examining the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements. Introduction. Belief and Psychic Reality. Naming and Containing. Oedipus in the Depressive Position. Subjectivity, Objectivity and Triangular Space. The Suspension of Belief and the 'As-if' Syndrome. Before and After the Depressive Position. Complacency in Analysis and Everyday Life. The Analust's Intuition: Selected Fact or Overvalued Idea? Daydream, Phantasy and Fiction. The Other Room and Poetic Space. Wordsworth: The Loss of Presence and the Presence of Loss. Existential Anxiety: Rilke's Duino Elegies. Milton's Destructive Narcissist or Blake's True Self? William Blake and Epistemic Narcissism. Publication Anxiety. References. Index....

Autorentext
Ronald Britton is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London, and a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Association.

Klappentext

Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award! Brings together Ronald Britton's writing on the subject of belief and imagination over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective and examining the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing.

Zusammenfassung
Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award!Brings together Ronald Britton's writing on the subject of belief and imagination over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective and examining the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements. Introduction. Belief and Psychic Reality. Naming and Containing. Oedipus in the Depressive Position. Subjectivity, Objectivity and Triangular Space. The Suspension of Belief and the 'As-if' Syndrome. Before and After the Depressive Position. Complacency in Analysis and Everyday Life. The Analust's Intuition: Selected Fact or Overvalued Idea? Daydream, Phantasy and Fiction. The Other Room and Poetic Space. Wordsworth: The Loss of Presence and the Presence of Loss. Existential Anxiety: Rilke's Duino Elegies. Milton's Destructive Narcissist or Blake's True Self? William Blake and Epistemic Narcissism. Publication Anxiety. References. Index.