Symbiosis and ambiguity [electronic resource] : a psychoanalytic study / José Bleger ; edited by John Churcher and Leopoldo Bleger, with a preface by R. Horacio Etchwgoyen ; translated by Susan Roger, Leopoldo Bleger and John Churcher.
Bleger, José.; Churcher, John.; Bleger, Leopoldo.; Roger, Susan.
2013
BF173 .B6213 2013
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Title Symbiosis and ambiguity [electronic resource] : a psychoanalytic study / José Bleger ; edited by John Churcher and Leopoldo Bleger, with a preface by R. Horacio Etchwgoyen ; translated by Susan Roger, Leopoldo Bleger and John Churcher.
Author Bleger, José.
Uniform Title Simbiosis y ambigüedad. English
ISBN 9780415464635
9780415464628
9780203093986 (electronic book)
Imprint Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
Language English
Description xlvii, 340 p.
Call Number BF173 .B6213 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 150.19/5
Summary "Symbiosis and Ambiguity is the first English edition of the classic study of early object relations by influential Argentinian psychoanalyst José Bleger (1922-1972). It is rooted in Kleinian thinking and rich in clinical material. Bleger's thesis is that starting from primitive undifferentiation, prior to the paranoid-schizoid position described by Klein, autism and symbiosis co-exist as narcissistic relations in a syncretic 'agglutinated' nucleus. In symbiosis part of the mind is deposited in an external person or situation; in autism it is deposited in the patient's own mind or body. The nucleus is ambiguous and persists in adults as the psychotic part of the personality.Symbiosis tends to immobilise the analytic process, so the analyst must mobilise, fragment and discriminate the agglutinated nucleus, whose ambiguity tends to 'blunt' persecutory situations. The psychoanalytic setting functions as a silent refuge for the psychotic part of the personality, where it creates a 'phantom world'. At some point, therefore, the setting itself has to be analysed and the analytic relationship de-symbiotised, as Bleger observes in a celebrated chapter on the setting. José Bleger's work demonstrates the need to analyse early narcissistic object relations as they arise clinically, especially in the setting. More widely, he regards undifferentiation and participation as operating throughout life: in groups, institutions, and society as a whole"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-325) and Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Added Author Churcher, John.
Bleger, Leopoldo.
Roger, Susan.
Series New library of psychoanalysis (Unnumbered)
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pt. 1. On symbiosis
pt. 2. On ambiguity
pt. 3. Appendix.

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