Emergent Container in Psychoanalysis - Experiencing Absence and Future

Drawing largely from the psychoanalytic ground of Jung, Bion and Winnicott, from Plato and Whitehead, A. N., and from numerous clinical studies, this book explores 'Absence' and 'Future' in the context of their many emotional and conceptual meanings.

List of contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Absence and Future 2. Hallucination as Pathology and as Entrée into the Collective Unconscious 3. Bion's Theory of Thinking, Absence, Container/Contained. Projective Identification and Hallucination 4. Absence and Precursor to Pathological Organisation and Equally as Basic to Psychic Life 5. Negative Capability 6. Experience and Whitehead: "Philosophy is a lure for feeling" (Whitehead, 1929) 7. Whitehead and Heraclitus: Permanence, Flux and Novelty 8. Being, Becoming and Modes of Being 9. Quaternio 10. Formlessness 11. Interrelations Index

About the author

Ana Martínez Acobi is a practising Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in North West London. She was born in Spain in 1967 and moved to London in 1986 where she studied and trained. Her interest lies in studying the unity of metaphysical and psychoanalytic thinking.

Summary

Drawing largely from the psychoanalytic ground of Jung, Bion and Winnicott, from Plato and Whitehead, A. N., and from numerous clinical studies, this book explores ‘Absence’ and ‘Future’ in the context of their many emotional and conceptual meanings.

Product details

• Authors: Ana Martinez Acobi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781032200064
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3220006-4
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis