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Belief and Imagination: Explorations in Psychoanalysis (New Library of Psychoanalysis)

By Ronald Britton

Book information

Year
1998
ISBN
9780415194372, 0415194377, 0203360818, 9780203360811, 9780203377574
LCC
BF173 .B824 1998
Open Library ID
OL359573M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
698 kB (714909 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
240\239
Topic
Psychology
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Belief and Imagination brings together Ronald Britton's writing on these subjects over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective. The book covers: The status of phantasies in an individuals mind - are they facts or possibilities? How the notions of objectivity and subjectivity are interrelated and have their origins in the Oedipal triangle How phantasies which are held to be products of the imagination, can be accounted for in psychoanalytic terms. Britton also examines the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing, and the ways in which belief, imagination and reality are explored in the works of Wordsworth, Rilke, Milton and Blake.

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