The Feeling Intellect: An Essay on the Independent Tradition in British and American Psychoanalysis

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In The Feeling Intellect, Steven Groarke explores the overlap between psychoanalysis and philosophy in order to provide the first critical evaluation of the Independent tradition in British and American psychoanalysis. The book focuses on the formation of Independent object-relations theory as an original mid- to late-twentieth-century development in post-Freudian psychoanalysis, focusing on contributions by Fairbairn, Winnicott, Loewald, and others to add to our understanding of what the author terms the dependence relationship: the earliest relationship between mother and infant. The theory of acts and relations provides the basic framework for more detailed discussions of the psychoanalysis of time, including, Loewald’s idea of the inner future and the role of re-descriptive memory as a type of reclamation. This book is aimed at a readership intent on exploring the philosophical aspects of contemporary psychoanalysis in more detail. It will be of great value to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and students studying psychology. Cover Half Title Endorsements Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 2 3 Notes Chapter 1: Acts and relations Living together The person-action relation The Freudian drives Vital activity Primal generative tension The disruptive nature of life The shadow of the object Internalisation Identification Notes Chapter 2: Dependence The mother-child relationship The Kleinian development Lacan and the object-relation a The object is only ever a refound object b The central object-relation is one of lack c The object-relation is operative on the imaginary plane d The object as a function of the signifier e Frustration cannot give rise to the maintenance of desire The theory of dynamic structure Here is where we meet The gift-object Maternité Dependence and preoccupation Notes Chapter 3: Prospective identification Geworfenheit and dependence The primacy of hope Identification and internalisation Temporality Conscience Inner discrimination Imagination and reality Something that makes for living The future in us Notes Chapter 4: Memory and reclamation Repetition Metaphor The reality of the past Überzeugung Reclamation Unlived life The scriptural analogy Mnemic experience Redescriptive memory Notes Bibliography Index