Engaging Primitive Anxieties of the Emerging Self: The Legacy of Frances Tustin

301 Pages·2017·14.43 MB·English

by  Howard B. Levine

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CHAPTERTITLE I
ENGAGING PRIMITIVE
ANXIETIES OF THE
EMERGING SELF
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ENGAGING PRIMITIVE
ANXIETIES OF THE
EMERGING SELF
The Legacy of Frances Tustin
edited by
Howard B. Levine
and David G. Power
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First published in 2017 by
Karnac Books Ltd
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Copyright © 2017 to Howard B. Levine and David G. Power for the edited
collection and to the individual authors for their contributions.
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CONTENTS
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ix
INTRODUCTIONby David G. Power xv
CHAPTER ONE
Finding a center of gravity via proximity with the analyst 1
Judy K. Eekhoff
CHAPTER TWO
Daydreaming and hypochondria: when daydreaming 21
goes wrong and hypochondria becomes an autistic
retreat
Alina Schellekes
CHAPTER THREE
“Black holes” and “fear of breakdown” in the analysis 43
of a fetishistic–masochistic patient
Ofra Eshel
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CHAPTER FOUR
Autistic states in patients with a narcissistic structure 73
Anna Oliva De Cesarei
CHAPTER FIVE
Sensual experience, defensive second skin, and the eclipse 95
of the body: some thoughts on Tustin and Ferrari
Riccardo Lombardi
CHAPTER SIX
“Emotional” storms in autistoid dynamics 113
Bernd Nissen
CHAPTER SEVEN
“The very same is lost”: in pursuit of mental coverage 129
when emerging from autistic states
Joshua Durban
CHAPTER EIGHT
Bion and the unintegrated states: falling, dissolving, 151
and spilling
Celia Fix Korbivcher
CHAPTER NINE
Inhibition of curiosity due to concern about the 171
object’s response: difficulties in tolerating a “third
position” in relation to autism
David Simpson
CHAPTER TEN
Language used as an autistic object 187
Lia Pistiner de Cortiñas
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The struggle to make the autistic child human 205
Vincenzo Bonaminio
CHAPTER TWELVE
Beckett’sEndgame: the collapse of mental life 221
Annie Reiner
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The autistic object, ethology, and neuroscience: a way to 241
a Copernican revolution in the understanding of autistic
spectrum disorders (ASD)?
Paulo Duarte Guimarães Filho
INDEX 259
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ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Vincenzo Bonaminio, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst and
full member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, Adjunct Professor at
“Sapienza”, University of Rome, Director of the “Winnicott-Centro”,
Rome, Director of the iW Winnicott Institute, a Training Course in
Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and in private
psychoanalytic practice (adult and child) in Rome. He is on the
European Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis
and has been Vice-President and Chair of the Programme Committee
of the European Psychoanalytic Federation (EPF). He is Co-Editor
of Richard e Piggle and the psychoanalytic series of books entitled
“Psicoanalisi Contemporanea”. In 2001, he was awarded the Fifth
International Frances Tustin Memorial Prize and Lecture and in
2009, the Thirteenth International Frances Tustin Memorial Prize
and Lecture. He has published extensively and presented papers in
Italian and English at many national and international psychoanalytic
congresses and is the author of the book Nas margens de mundos
infinitos . . .”: A presença do analista e do analisando no espaço transicional
em uma perspectiva contemporânea do pensamento de Winnicott (Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, 2010).
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