The matrix of the mind : object relations and the psychoanalytic dialogue

Certain chapters [2, 6, 7, 8] of this volume are based on prior publications of the author.

1 The psychoanalytic dialogue. 2 Instinct, phantasy, and psychological deep structure in the work of Melanie Klein. 3 The paranoid-schizoid position: self as object. 4 The depressive position and the birth of the historical subject. 5 Between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive position. 6 Internal object relations. 7 The mother, the infant, and the matrix in the work of Donald Winnicott. 8 Potential space. 9 Dream space and analytic space

'...brilliantly clarifies, explicates, critiques, and interprets pivotal ideas emerging from the British object relations theorists, primarily concepts introduced by Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott and, in a more limited way, Ronald Fairbairn and Wilfred Bion. No Kleinian himself, Ogden finds that the focus of most American clinicians on the more apparent difficulties in Kleinian theory, such as the early developmental timetable, obstructs consideration of the wider significance of her contribution to the psychoanalytic dialogue....'

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