Loss of Self: Self-Writing As a Tool in Borderline Psychoanalysis

The Loss of Self considers distinctions and connections between the writing of survival and survival as a mode of being and thinking encountered in analytic work with borderline patients.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Prologue: Back and Forth between Treatment and Writing
Part One
The Beginnings
Chapter I
Unease about Origins, Unease at the Origins
Chapter II
The Original, the Originary
Part Two
Renewing Psychoanalysis
Chapter I
The Ferenczian Renewal
Chapter II
Beginning, Starting Over
Chapter III
Welcoming the Unwelcome Child
Part Three
Writing at the Borderline
Chapter I
Survival in Words
Chapter II
Writing for...
Chapter III
Writing against...
Part Four
Borderline Existence
Chapter I
Disappearance or Loss
Chapter II
From Culture to Treatment: Malaise in Transparency
Epilogue
The Analyst's Transference, Transferential Writing
Addendum
The Self in Question

About the author

Jean-Francois Chiantaretto is a Paris-based psychoanalyst and professor emeritus of clinical psychopathology at Sorbonne Paris North University. Trained in philosophy and clinical psychology, he is a member and scientific secretary of the Quatrième Groupe.

Summary

The Loss of Self considers distinctions and connections between the writing of survival and survival as a mode of being and thinking encountered in analytic work with borderline patients.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Francois Chiantaretto, Jean-François Chiantaretto
• Assisted by: Agnès Jacob (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032893846
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3289384-6
• No. of pages: 126
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis