Inquiries in Psychoanalysis: Collected papers of Edna O'Shaughnessy (The New Library of Psychoanalysis)

The papers of Edna O’Shaughnessy are among the finest to be found in psychoanalytic writing. Her work is unified not so much by its subject matter, which is diverse, but by her underlying preoccupations, including the nature of psychic reality and subjectivity, and the psychic limits of endurance and reparation. Here a selection of her work, edited and with an introduction by Richard Rusbridger, is brought together in a collection which demonstrates the contribution that O’Shaughnessy has made to many areas of psychoanalysis, from personality organisations, the superego, psychic refuges and the Oedipus complex to the subject of whether a liar can be psychoanalysed. __Inquiries in Psychoanalysis__ is a record of clinical work and thinking over sixty years of psychoanalytic practice with children and adults. This wide-ranging selection of work will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and students. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 10 Copyright Page 11 Dedication 12 Table of Contents 14 Preface 16 Acknowledgements and permissions 18 Introduction 22 Part I Papers 38 1 The absent object 40 2 Interminably a patient: a discussion of ‘Expiation as a defense,’ by Ruth Riesenberg Malcolm 53 3 A clinical study of a defensive organisation 57 4 A commemorative essay on W. R. Bion’s theory of thinking 76 5 Words and working through 90 6 A 31⁄2-year-old boy’s melancholic identification with an original object 105 7 The invisible Oedipus complex 116 8 Seeing with meaning and emotion 132 9 Can a liar be psychoanalysed? 139 10 Enclaves and excursions 154 11 Psychosis: not thinking in a bizarre world 168 12 What is a clinical fact? 183 13 Relating to the superego 197 14 Dreaming and not dreaming 211 15 A projective identification with Frankenstein: some questions about psychic limits 222 16 Whose Bion? 236 17 Mental connectedness 243 18 Intrusions 253 19 On gratitude 267 20 Where is here? When is now? 280 Part II Reviews 292 21 Review of Phyliss Grosskurth, Melanie Klein: her World and her Work 294 22 Review of Herbert Rosenfeld, Impasse and Interpretation 304 23 Review of Gérard Bléandonu, Wilfred Bion: his Life and Work 1897–1979 308 24 Review of The Dead Mother: the Work of André Green, edited by Gregorio Kohon 314 Bibliography 320 Index 334 La 4e de couverture indique : "The papers of Edna O'Shaughnessy are among the finest to be found in psychoanalytic writing. Her work is unified not so much by its subject matter, which is diverse, but by her underlying preoccupations, including the nature of psychic reality and subjectivity, and the psychic limits of endurance and reparation. Here a selection of her work, edited and with an introduction by Richard Rusbridger, is brought together in a collection which demonstrates the contribution that O'Shaughnessy has made to many areas of psychoanalysis, from personality organisations, the superego, psychic refuges and the Oedipus complex to the subject of whether a liar can be psychoanalysed. Inquiries in Psychoanalysis is a record of clinical work and thinking over sixty years of psychoanalytic practice with children and adults. This wide-ranging selection of work will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and students." "The papers of Edna O'Shaughnessy are among the finest to be found in psychoanalytic writing. Her work is unified not so much by its subject matter, which is diverse, but by her underlying preoccupations, including the nature of psychic reality and subjectivity, and the psychic limits of endurance and reparation. Here a selection of her work, edited and with an introduction by Richard Rusbridger, is brought together in a collection which demonstrates the contribution that O'Shaughnessy has made to many areas of psychoanalysis, from personality organisations, the superego, psychic refuges and the Oedipus complex to the subject of whether a liar can be psychoanalysed. Inquiries in Psychoanalysis is a record of clinical work and thinking over sixty years of psychoanalytic practice with children and adults. This wide-ranging selection of work will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and students"-- Provided by publisher The papers of Edna O' Shaughnessy are among the finest to be found in psychoanalytic writing. Her work is unified not so much by its subject matter, which is diverse, but by her underlying preoccupations, including the nature of psychic reality and subjectivity, and the psychic limits of endurance and reparation. Here a selection of her work, edited and with an introduction by Richard Rusbridger, is brought together in a collection which demonstrates the contribution that O' Shaughnessy has made to many areas of psychoanalysis, from ..