Mourning and Metabolization - Close Readings in the Psychoanalytic Literature of Loss

List of contents

Introduction: Mourning and the internal world in psychoanalysis and literature  1. Sigmund Freud: Early explorations - mapping the territory of the mind  2. Sigmund Freud: Later models - identification, internal structure, and the ubiquity of loss  3. Sándor Ferenczi: Inventing introjection; Karl Abraham: Phenomenologist of depression  4. Melanie Klein: Positioning the object and rebuilding the internal world  5. Hans Loewald: Turning ghosts into ancestors - internalisation and emancipation  6. Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok: Rescuing introjection from the crypts of incorporation  7. André Green: Fading and framing - the metaphorical mother lost and restored  Conclusion: Meaning, mourning, and mortality in Freud and Auden 

About the author

Rael Meyerowitz is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in London. With a background in literature and philosophy, he teaches extensively on psychoanalytic topics and their intersection with other disciplines. He is the co-editor of Turning the Tide (2018), on the work of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust’s Fitzjohn’s Unit.

Summary

By bringing together perspectives from psychoanalysis and literary study, and considering the reciprocal relation between ideas about mourning and our internal worlds, this book provides a guide to thinking theoretically about loss and how we deal with it.

Product details

• Authors: Rael Meyerowitz, Meyerowitz Rael
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032210780
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3221078-0
• No. of pages: 420
• Series: Tavistock Clinic Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis