Splitting and projective identification

Chapters:. Part One: Splitting. 1. Splitting: a fundamental concept. 2. Freud's concept of splitting. 3. Klein's concept. 4. Other contributions. 5. The experience of splitting and the splitting of experience. 6. Primal splitting, the background object of primary identification, and other self-objects. 7. Attacks against linking: the phenomenon of blocking of thoughts. 8. Mental dissociation. Part Two: Projective identification:. 9. The nature of projective identification. 10. Freud on projection. 11. The Kleinian contribution. 12. Splitting and projective identification in psychoanalytic therapy

'In order to comprehend the early state of mind, we need an understanding of the mental organization and the world view which characterizes it. This volume is an attempt to formulate a theory of this inchoate state by describing the origin and development of its two principal architects, splitting and projective identification.'

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