Psychoanalysis, Literature and War: Papers 1972-95 (New Library of Psychoanalysis) Book

Hanna Segal, pioneer in psychoanalytic thought, has made many original contributions to her field of study. This volume of her most recent papers revisits the themes elaborated in her earlier work and brings new insights into their relevance to understanding of the external world as well as to clinical practice. The two themes which act as connecting strands and give the book its unity are the clinical usefulness of the concept to the death instinct and the relationship between phantasy and reality.Segal is an authority at capturing the vitality of the clinical session on the page, and the clinical papers in this volume deal with a variety of topics, including: symbolism; a delusional system as defence against the re-emergence of a catastrophic situation; early infantile development as reflected in the psychoanalytic process:emergence from narcissism; the Oedipus complex today; paranoid anxiety and paranoia; termination; and the use and abuses of contertransference.Read More