Sex, Death, and the Superego: Experiences in Psychoanalysis

by Ronald Britton

Overview

This book is a personal reappraisal of psychoanalytic theories in the light of clinical experience. The first part is about sexuality and begins where psychoanalysis began, with hysteria. The second part is about the ego and the super-ego, the relationship of which dominated Freud's writing from his middle period onwards. The last part is on narcissism and the narcissistic disorders, a major preoccupation of psychoanalysis in the second half of the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855759480
Publisher:	Karnac Books
Publication date:	11/28/2003
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Ronald Britton is a well-known international psychoanalytic writer who has lectured widely in Europe and North and South America. He is a former President of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). He has a predominantly clinical approach but also a special interest in the relationship of psychoanalysis to literature, philosophy and theology. He was given the IPA Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in 2013 and the Sigourney Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Contributions in 2014.

Table of Contents

Preface -- Sex and Death -- Hysteria (I): Anna O -- Hysteria (II): Sabina Spielrein -- Hysteria (III): the erotic countertransference -- The female castration complex: Freud’s big mistake? -- The Ego and the Superego -- The unconscious in practice -- The concept of the ego -- Emancipation from the superego -- The ego-destructive superego -- Humour and the superego -- Narcissism -- Narcissism and narcissistic disorders -- Narcissistic problems in sharing space