Reshaping the Psychoanalytic Domain: The Work of Melanie Klein, W.R.D. Fairbairn, and D.W. Winnicott

by Judith M. Hughes

Overview

Tracing the line of succession from Sigmund Freud, through Melanie Klein to Fairbairn and Winnicott, Judith Hughes demonstrates the internal development of the British school of psychoanalysis and the coherence of its legacy. Both lay reader and professional will find the book illuminating.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520342156
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	11/15/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Judith M. Hughes is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

Table of Contents

Preface 
1. Reshaping the Psychoanalytic Domain
 The British Psychoanalytic Community 
 Dramatis Personae 
 The Controversial Discussions 

2. Freudian Paradigms
 Freud and Fin de Siecle Neurosis 
 Mind: Psychological Speculation 
 Freud and Libido Sexualis 
 Oedipus: A Complex Left Dangling 
 
3. Melanie Klein: The World of Internal Objects
 From Instinct to Fantasy 
 External Objects and the Construction of Inner Worlds 
 Children within the Clinical Domain 
 The Paranoid-Schizoid Position 

4. W. R. D. Fairbairn: Object Relations and Ego Structures
 Freud's Structural Hypothesis: A Flawed Synthesis 
 "A Revised Psychopathology" 
 "The Most Formidable Resistance": Harry Guntrip's Analysis 
 "Back to Hysteria" 

5. D. W. Winnicott: Facilitating Environments, Maternal and Analytic 
 The Good-Enough Mother 
 The Good-Enough Analyst 
 The Hands of the Living God 
 Transitions 

6. Conclusion: Paradigms Transformed 172

 Notes 
 Bibliography 
 Index