First Thoughts: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Beginnings
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2021
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 274
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 95811
- ISBN 13 : 9781912691265
- ISBN 10 : 9781912691
Table of Contents
A tribute to Chris Mawson
Part I
Dissatisfaction
1. My beginning
2. Creation myths
3. Presence and absence
4. The dispute
5. The chaos or the word
6. The binding of Hans
7. Circularity and straight lines
8. Initial thoughts
Part II
Engaging in the phenomenon
9. In the beginning
10. The garden
11. Conception stories
12. Vicissitudes of penetration
13. Magical structures
14. Wholeness
15. Tentative thoughts
Part III
Reappraisal
16. Freud’s first thoughts
17. Klein’s first thoughts
18. Winnicott’s first thoughts
19. Bion’s first thoughts
20. Gathered thoughts
Part IV
Reformulation
21. Modus vivendi
22. An elemental structure
23. Narcissism
24. Threads
25. To myth or not to myth
26. Final thoughts
References
Acknowledgements
About the author