Envy and gratitude revisited / edited by Priscilla Roth & Alessandra Lemma ; foreword by R. Horacio Etchegoyen.

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TextSeries: Psychoanalytic ideas and applications seriesPublication details: London : Karnac, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 252 pages) : portraitContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781849406598
1849406596
1283070693
9781283070690
9786613070692
6613070696
0429899084
9780429899089
0429474318
9780429474316
9780429896900
0429896905
9780429896903

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Envy and gratitude revisited.DDC classification:

152.48 22

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BF575.E65 E58 2008eb

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Contents:

"Even now, now, very now--" : on envy and the hatred of love / Ignês Sodré -- Envy, narcissism, and the destructive instinct / Robert Caper -- Envy and Gratitude : some current reflections / H. Shmuel Erlich -- An independent response to Envy and Gratitude / Caroline Polmear -- On gratitude / Edna O'Shaughnessy -- Keeping envy in mind : the vicissitudes of envy in adolescent motherhood / Alessandra Lemma -- Envy in western society : today and tomorrow / Florence Guignard -- He thinks himself impaired : the pathologically envious personality / Ronald Britton -- The repetition compulsion, envy, and the death instinct / John Steiner -- Romantic perversion : the role of envy in the creation of a timeless universe / Heinz Weiss -- Envy and the negative therapeutic reaction / Michael Feldman -- Reflections on Envy and Gratitude / Irma Brenman-Pick -- Being envious of envy and gratitude / Peter Fonagy -- Vicious circles of envy and punishment / Henry F. Smith.

Summary: These stimulating essays are evidence that 50 years after its publication Melanie Klein's Envy and Gratitude is still a rich source of psychoanalytic inspiration. Sixteen highly regarded analysts, representing a wide range of psychoanalytic thinking, provide new insights and highlight current developments without avoiding the controversies that surround the original publication. The clinical and literary material is engaging and illustrates the effect of theory on practice and the influence of practice on the evolution of theory.

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These stimulating essays are evidence that 50 years after its publication Melanie Klein's Envy and Gratitude is still a rich source of psychoanalytic inspiration. Sixteen highly regarded analysts, representing a wide range of psychoanalytic thinking, provide new insights and highlight current developments without avoiding the controversies that surround the original publication. The clinical and literary material is engaging and illustrates the effect of theory on practice and the influence of practice on the evolution of theory.

English.

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