- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
-
1 Freud's Theories and Their Contemporary Variations -
2 Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theories -
3 The Concept of Drive in the Light of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theorizing -
4 Unresolved Issues in the Psychoanalytic Theory of Homosexuality and Bisexuality -
5 Mourning and Melancholia Revisited -
6 Resistances to Research in Psychoanalysis -
7 Authoritarianism, Culture, and Personality in Psychoanalytic Education -
8 A Concerned Critique of Psychoanalytic Education -
9 Some Proposed Complementary Solutions to the Problems of Psychoanalytic Education -
10 Sanctioned Social Violence: A Psychoanalytic View -
11 Some Psychoanalytic Contributions to the Prevention of Socially Sanctioned Violence -
12 Listening in Psychoanalysis: The Importance of Not Understanding -
13 The Analyst's Authority in the Psychoanalytic Situation -
14 Validation in the Clinical Process -
15 The Interpretation of the Transference (with Particular Reference to Merton Gill's Contribution) -
16 The Influence of the Gender of Patient and Analyst on the Psychoanalytic Relationship -
17 Convergences and Divergences in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Technique -
18 Recent Developments in the Technical Approaches of English-Language Psychoanalytic Schools - References
- Index
Mourning and Melancholia Revisited
Mourning and Melancholia Revisited
- Chapter:
- (p.75) 5 Mourning and Melancholia Revisited
- Source:
- Contemporary Controversies in Psychoanalytic Theory, Techniques, and Their Applications
- Author(s):
Otto F. Kernberg
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter discusses Mourning and Melancholia, which is Sigmund Freud's first and basic contribution to a psychoanalytic understanding of pathological and normal mourning, the psychodynamic determinants of depression, and the psychopathology of key affective disorders. This chapter states that Melanie Klein and Edith Jacobson's works have improved the analysis of normal and pathological depressive reactions, and ends with a section on the concept of identification.
Keywords: mourning, melancholia, Sigmund Freud, depression, psychopathology, affective disorders, Melanie Klein, Edith Jacobson, depressive reactions, identification
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
-
1 Freud's Theories and Their Contemporary Variations -
2 Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theories -
3 The Concept of Drive in the Light of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theorizing -
4 Unresolved Issues in the Psychoanalytic Theory of Homosexuality and Bisexuality -
5 Mourning and Melancholia Revisited -
6 Resistances to Research in Psychoanalysis -
7 Authoritarianism, Culture, and Personality in Psychoanalytic Education -
8 A Concerned Critique of Psychoanalytic Education -
9 Some Proposed Complementary Solutions to the Problems of Psychoanalytic Education -
10 Sanctioned Social Violence: A Psychoanalytic View -
11 Some Psychoanalytic Contributions to the Prevention of Socially Sanctioned Violence -
12 Listening in Psychoanalysis: The Importance of Not Understanding -
13 The Analyst's Authority in the Psychoanalytic Situation -
14 Validation in the Clinical Process -
15 The Interpretation of the Transference (with Particular Reference to Merton Gill's Contribution) -
16 The Influence of the Gender of Patient and Analyst on the Psychoanalytic Relationship -
17 Convergences and Divergences in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Technique -
18 Recent Developments in the Technical Approaches of English-Language Psychoanalytic Schools - References
- Index
