Oedipus and the Couple

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1 SERIESEDITOR’S PREFACE xiii
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3 Introduction 1
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6 CHAPTER ONE
7 On being able to be a couple: the importance of a 9
8 “creative couple” in psychic life
9 Mary Morgan
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Reflective space in the intimate couple relationship: 31
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the “marital triangle”
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Stanley Ruszczynski
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The couple, their marriage, and Oedipus: or, problems 49
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come in twos and threes
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2 Coming into one’s own: the oedipus complex and 73
3 the couple in late adolescence
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7 Shadows of the parental couple: oedipal themes in 101
8 Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander
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“It seemed to have to do with something else ...” 121
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Henry James’ What Maisie Knew and Bion’s theory
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The painful truth 141
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Monica Lanman
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The oedipus complex as observed in work with 163
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couples and their children
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Oedipus gets married: an investigation of a couple’s 181
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shared oedipal drama
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Joanna Rosenthall
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No Sex couples, catastrophic change, and the primal scene 201
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Francis Grier
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5 REFERENCES 221
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211 Andrew Balfour originally trained as a Clinical Psychologist at
1 University College London, and then as a Psychoanalytic Psycho-
2 therapist at the Tavistock Clinic. Subsequently, he trained as a Couple
3 Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Marital Studies
4 Institute. He currently works as a Senior Clinical Lecturer and
5 Couple Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute,
6 and as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic.
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8 Sasha Brookesstudied English Language and Literature at Oxford
9 University, and, later, Psychology at London and Durham. She
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1 before training as a Couple Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Marital
2 Studies Institute, and as an Individual Psychotherapist with the
3 Arbours Association. She has now retired from clinical practice and
4 is engaged on a study of some of the works of Henry James, of
5 which this chapter forms a part. The Invisible Matrix, which she co-
6 edited with Pauline Hodson, was published by Karnac in 2000.
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8 Francis Grier is an Associate Member of the British Psycho-
911 analytical Society. He is also a Full Member of the Society of Couple
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