Thinking Through Fairbairn: Exploring the Object Relations Model of Mind
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : April 2018
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 272
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 39881
- ISBN 13 : 9781782205708
- ISBN 10 : 1782205705
Also by Graham S. Clarke
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Thinking through Fairbairn offers parallel perspectives on Fairbairn’s work. It explores an extended interpretation of his ‘psychology of dynamic structure’ and applies that model to a number of different areas. Fairbairn’s Scottish origins are explored through his relationship with the work of Ian Suttie and Edward Glover.
A new extended object relations model of phantasy and inner reality that reflects Fairbairn’s approach as represented by his contribution to the Controversial Discussions is also developed. In cooperation with Paul Finnegan, this version of Fairbairn’s model is applied to an understanding of multiple personality disorder or dissociative identity disorder. This model is combined with Fairbairn’s theory of art to provide an understanding of some ‘puzzle’ films based in trauma and dissociation.
Fairbairn’s theory is presented here as a synthesis of classical and relational approaches, and his appropriation by relational theorists as a precursor to exclusively relational approaches challenged. The deep structure of Fairbairn’s object relations model is developed through a detailed comparison with Glover’s ego-nuclei model. Fairbairn’s nuanced view of instinct and affect is investigated and some parallels with neuropsychoanalysis developed. Finally some ways that the developed model might be further enhanced to become a general model are suggested.
About the Author(s)
Graham S. Clarke was born in Colchester, Essex, UK in 1942. He went with his family to Australia as “ten pound poms” in 1949, returning via the Suez Canal just before it was closed in 1956. He did a year at Sydney Technical High School (Australia) before going to Clacton County High School (UK) until 1961. Graham took a BSc (Hons) Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (1961–1964). It was here that he attended a series of lectures by Richard Buckminster Fuller whose idea of comprehensive anticipatory design science prompted him to seek a career in computing. In 1967 he did an MSc in applications of computing at what was then the North London Polytechnic. He worked as a computing advisor at City University before starting a PhD in experimental psychology at Hatfield Polytechnic which he never completed. After working on a computer-based authoring system, he went to Chelmer Institute (now part of Anglia Ruskin University) before going to Essex University, Computer Science Department, as a Computer Officer in 1986. He was a founder member of the Intelligent Inhabited Building Group there until his retirement in 2007.
Having had a long-term interest in the “anti-psychiatry” movement headed by R. D. Laing and David Cooper and having attended the Dialectics of Liberation conference at the Round House in Chalk Farm in 1967, while at Essex he took a part-time master’s in Psychoanalytic Studies at the Tavistock (1995) and later a PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex University (2002). He published his first paper on psychoanalysis and film in Free Associations journal in 1994 and since then has published many more papers and articles, as well as five books.
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