Seeing and being seen
Subtitle: emerging from a psychic retreat
By: John Steiner ; foreword by Roy Schafer
Series: New library of psychoanalysis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780415575058; 9780415575065
Subjects: Defense Mechanisms; Defense mechanisms (Psychology); Psychotherapist and patient; Professional-Patient Relations; Psychoanalysis; Impasse (Psychotherapy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-188) and index.
Table of contents: title: Embarrassment, shame, and humiliation; title: The anxiety of being seen : narcissistic pride and narcissistic humiliation; title: Gaze, dominance, and humiliation in the Schreber case; title: Improvement and the embarrassment of tenderness; title: Transference to the analyst as an excluded observer; title: Helplessness, power, and dominance; title: The struggle for dominance in the Oedipus situation; title: Helplessness and the exercise of power in the analytic session; title: Revenge and resentment in the 'Oedipus situation'; title: Mourning, melancholia and the repetition compulsion; title: The conflict between mourning and melancholia; title: Repetition compulsion, envy, and the death instinct.