Unconscious Phantasy

Editor : Riccardo Steiner

Part of The Psychoanalytic Ideas series - more in this series

Unconscious Phantasy

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2003
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 240
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 17190
  • ISBN 13 : 9781855759879
  • ISBN 10 : 185575987X
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'There is no doubt that "phantasy" or "unconscious phantasy", as it started to be used in the English translation of Freud's work in the late 1920s and 1930s to differentiate it from "fantasy", is one of the most important theoretical and clinical concepts of psychoanalysis.'
- Riccardo Steiner, from the Introduction

In this outstanding new collection, the vital concept of unconscious phantasy is debated and examined by such luminaries as Joseph and Anne-Marie Sandler, Jean Laplanche, J-B Pontalis, Susan Isaacs and Hanna Segal. Sigmund Freud's seminal paper Formulations of the Two Principles of Mental Functioning heads an impressive collection and provides a welcome reminder of the beginnings of this theory. The inherent difficulties in translating Freud's work have contributed to the conflicting interpretations that are so illustrated so well in the following articles. By collecting together such diverse opinions of Freudians, Kleinians, Lacanians and Neuroscientists on unconscious phantasy, Riccardo Steiner has created a fresh and compelling elucidation of this fascinating subject.

About the Editor(s)

Ricardo Steiner is a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, and the current Honorary Archivist. Amongst other distinguished contributions to psychoanalysis, he edited, together with Pearl King, The Freud-Klein Controversies. His other books, 'It's a New Kind of Diaspora':Explorations in the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis, Tradition, Change, Creativity: Repercussions of the New Diaspora on Aspects of British Psychoanalysis, Unconscious Phantasy and Within Time and Beyond Time: A Festschrift for Pearl King are also published by Karnac Books.

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