Sincerity Other Works: The Collected Papers of Donald Meltzer

608 Pages·1994·16.057 MB·English

by  Donald Meltzer

S I N C E R I TY

A ND OTHER WORKS

COLLECTED PAPERS OF

DONALD MELTZER

Edited by

ALBERTO HAHN

K A R N A C
SINCERITY

AND OTHER WORKS

S I N C E R I TY

AND O T H ER W O R KS

Collected Papers of

Donald Meltzer

edited by
Alberto Hahn
London
K A R N AC B O O KS
First published in 1994 by
H. Karnac (Books) Ltd,
118 Finchley Road,
London NW3 5HT
Reprinted 2005
Previously unpublished papers copyright © 1994 by Donald Meltzer
Arrangement and introductions copyright © 1994 by A. Harm
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Meltzer, Donald
Sincerity and Other Works: Collected
Papers of Donald Meltzer
I. Title II. Hahn, Alberto
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Permission to reprint or translate the following chapters is gratefully
acknowledged:
Chapter 1, from: Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal
Processes, 18 (February, 1955), No. 1. Copyright 1955 by The
William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation, Inc.
Chapters 2, 6, 7. 8, 11,21 first published in Italian in: La
comprensione della bellezza (Loescher Edttore).
Chapter 4, from: International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 44 (1963).
Part 1: 83-96.
Chapter 5, from: International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. 45 (1964):
246-250.
Chapter 9, first published in French In: Revue Fraiicaise de
Psychanalyse, 34 (1970).
Chapter 10, from: Journal of Child Psychotherapy. 11 (3) (1969): pp.
57-61.
Chapter 14, from: Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 14 (2) (1978): 210­
225.
Chapter 16, from: Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 10 (3) (1974).
Chapter 18, from: Contemporary Psychoanalysis, I I (3) (1975): 289­
310.
Chapter 19, from: Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 11 (2) (1975).
Chapter 20, from: SchizopJirenia 75 (Jarl Jorstad & Endre Ugelstad,
Eds.). Scandinavian University Press.
Chapter 26, from: Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 17 (2) (1981): 232­
238.
Chapter 27, from: International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 62 (1981):
243-249. © Mauro Mancia and Donald Meltzer.
Chapter 31, first published in French in: Journal de la Psychanalyse
de VEnfant (1988).
CONTENTS

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Author's Preface
1 Towards a structural concept of anxiety

(1955)

2 Note on a transient inhibition of chewing

(1959)

3 Lectures and seminars in Kleinian child psychiatry
[in collaboration with Esther Bick)
(1960)
4 A contribution to the metapsychology

of cyclothymic states

(1963)
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5 The differentiation of somatic delusions
from hypochondria
(1963)
6 The dual unconscious basis of materialism
(1965)
7 Return to the imperative:
an ethical implication of psychoanalytic findings
(1965)
8 An interruption technique for the analytic impasse
(1968)
9 A note on analytic receptivity
(1968)
1 0 The relation of aims to methodology
in the treatment of children
(1968)
11 Positive and negative forms
(1970)
1 2 Sincerity:
a study in the atmosphere of human relations
(1971)
1 3 Towards an atelier system
(1971)
14 Routine and inspired Interpretations:
their relation to the weaning process in analysis
(1973)
1 5 Repression, forgetting, and unfaithfulness
(1974)
16 Narcissistic foundation of the erotic transference
(1974)
CONTENTS tX
17 The role of pregenital confusions in erotomania
(1974) 330
1 8 Adhesive identification
(1974) 335
19 Compulsive generosity
(1975) 351
20 The role of narcissistic organization
In the communication difficulties
of the schizophrenic
(1975) 363
2 1 Temperature and distance
as technical dimensions of interpretation
0976) 374
22 A psychoanalytic model
of the child-in-the-family-in-the-community
[with Martha Harris)
(1976) 387
2 3 Impressions concerning
adolescent confusional states
(1977) 455
2 4 A note on introjective processes
(1978) 458
2 5 Th e diameter of the circle" in Wilfred Bion's work
(1980) 469
2 6 The relation of splitting of attention
to splitting of self and objects
(1981) 475
27 Ego ideal functions
and the psychoanalytic process
[with Mauro Mancia)
(1981) 483