On Freud''s Observations on Transference-Love

Transference love is discussed in the larger context of transference in general. The essays illuminate a persistent problem in all modalities of psychotherapy: unfortunate, often tragic, enactments of erotic transference and countertransference. This volume also includes the original essay by Freud.

List of contents

Preface , Introduction , Observations on Transference-Love (1915) , Observations on Transference-Love , Discussion of "Observations on Transference-Love" , A Rereading of Freud's "Observations on Transference-Love" , On Transference Love: Revisiting Freud , Five Readings of Freud's "Observations on Transference-Love" , Footnote to a Footnote to "Observations on Transference-Love" , On Transference Love: Some Current Observations , One-Person and Two-Person Perspectives: Freud's "Observations on Transference-Love" , The Oedipal Tragedy in the Psychoanalytic Process: Transference Love , A Cry of Fire: Some Considerations on Transference Love , Amae and Transference Love , Acting versus Remembering in Transference Love and Infantile Love

About the author

Peter Fonagy is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at University College London. He is Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London. He is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society in child and adult analysis. He has published over 200 chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books.Ethel Spector Person is director and training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and professor of clinical psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.

Summary

Transference love is discussed in the larger context of transference in general. The essays illuminate a persistent problem in all modalities of psychotherapy: unfortunate, often tragic, enactments of erotic transference and countertransference. This volume also includes the original essay by Freud.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Hagelin Fonagy, Ethel S. Hagelin Person
• Assisted by: Peter Fonagy (Editor), Fonagy Peter (Editor), Aiban Hagelin (Editor), Hagelin Aiban (Editor), Ethel S. Person (Editor), Ethel Spector Person (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367102449
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10244-9
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: The International Psychoanalytical Association Contemporary Freud Turning Points and Critical Issues Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)