Post Kleinian Psychoanalysis

146 Pages·2001·4.761 MB·English

by  Kenneth Sanders

KENNETH SANDERS

POST-KLEINIAN

PSYCHOANALYSIS

TheBiellaSeminars

Foreword by
DONALD MELTZER
KARNAC
POST-KLEINIAN

PSYCHOANALYSIS

POST-KLEIN IAN

PSYCHOANALYSIS

The Biella Seminars

Kenneth Sanders
Foreword by
Donald Meltzer
London & New York
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CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VII

FOREWORD by Donald Meltzer ix

PREFACE XI

1 Prologue and a consultation 1

2 An adolescent emerges from confusion 11

3 Dreams: who writes the script? 23

4 Identification and the toileting of the mind 39

5 The mermaid and the sirens 53

6 The combined part-object:

from "the woman with a penis"

to "the breast-and-nipple" 65

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7 The combined part-object in infant observation

and practice 79

8 The Oedipus complex and introjective identification 89

9 Psychosomatic and somapsychotic 101

10 Epilogue:

claustrophilia and the "perennial philosophy" 111

REFERENCES 121

INDEX 125
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I
am especially indebted to Selina Marsoni Sella for her invita­
tion to contribute to the teaching at the school in Italy that she
founded in 1990—the Scuola Biellese di Psicoterapia Psicoana­
litica. Her enthusiasm for the work was a constant encouragement
to the seminar.
The membership of the seminars varied over the years, so that
the names of the most regular contributors to the discussions,
listed below in grateful acknowledgement, must stand for all.
Lydia Bozzolo

Antonella Graziano

Selina Marsoni Sella

Carla Perinotti

Marco Rolando

Mario Sabucco

Pieralda Stagliano

Marilena Vottero

"To my friends pictured within" was the dedication (after Elgar
and his Enigma Variations) that I chose to express my thanks to
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patients and analysands in my previous books—and I can think of
no better for those who appear in these chapters.
I am indebted to Philip Sanders for drawing my attention to the
"Perennial Philosophy" discussed in chapter ten, to Simon Sanders
for help in organizing and to Klara King for editing the manu­
script.
As always, my wife's loving support and encouragement have
been indispensable.
FOREWORD
Donald Meltzer
T
lhis book by Dr Kenneth Sanders, his third, published now
by Karnac Books, is taking its place in what is becoming a
strong corpus of post-Kleinian literature, in a genre begun
by Wilfred Bion and carried on by Donald Meltzer, notably in
Barcelona, Buenos Aires, and Stockholm, and others devoted to
clinical work and discovery and devoid as much as possible from
theoretical invention.
The chapters in this book not only contain fascinating clinical
accounts but in Dr Sanders exposition cover the wide range of
ideas of extended metapsychology as they pertain to children,
adolescents, and adults. Here what is rather scattered throughout
the existing literature is a well-knit exposition of the substance of
this evolving school of psychoanalysis. Clear, precise, and rising to
poetic heights at times, it makes rich reading.
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