The fabric of affect in the psychoanalytic discourse / Andre Green ; translated by Alan Sheridan
1999, 1st edition. London ; New York : Routledge. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #423446
ISBN: 0415115256
Physical description: xvii, 376 pages; 23 cm. Contents: Front Cover; The Fabric of Affect in the Psychoanalytic Discourse; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the English-language edition; Preface to the French edition (1973); Introduction; The boundaries of the study; Terminology and semantics; Questions of method; Part I: Affect in the psychoanalytic literature; 1. Affect in Freud's work; Evolution of the conception of the affect; Evolution of the conception of anxiety (1893-1932); Conclusion; 2. An overall view of the psychoanalytic literature since Freud; Analytic bibliography of the principal English-language works on affect
Theoretical positions on the affect in FrancePart II: Clinical practice in psychoanalysis: structures and processes; 3. Affect in clinical structures; Affect in neurotic structures; Affect in psychotic structures; Between neurosis and psychosis; Conclusion; 4. Affect, the psychoanalytic process and the Oedipus complex; Affect and the raw materials of analytic work; Schematic typologies of discourse; The Oedipus complex and the ordering of discourse; Part III: Theoretical study: affect, language and discourse; negative hallucination; 5. Affect and the two topographical models
The paradoxical situation of affect in Freudian theory (quantity and quality)First topography: affect and the unconscious (language and discourse); Second topography: affect and the id (the affective economy); Second topography: affect and the superego (renunciation, idealization and affective extinction; Second topography: affect and the ego (negative hallucination); 6. Draft for a theoretical model: the process; Affect, history, structure; A hypothetical theoretical model: the process. Locus of theaffect; The economic and the symbolic: force and meaning; Postface; Psychoanalytic speech
Affect and instinctual impulsesStatus of the primal phantasy; Repression and the phantasies; Language for Freud; A few thoughts on modern linguistics: the heterogeneity of the psychoanalytic signifier; The linkage of discourse; Negative hallucination; Process as model, living and experienced; Postscript 1; Postscript 2; The twofold theory; The observation of affects in infants; Some theoretical considerations born from clinical experience; Some remarks about a psychoanalytic theory of affects; Affects: indirect approach and deduction; Objects; Unconscious affects; History
Pregnancy and prominencePostscript 3; Discriminating and not discriminating between affect and representation: questions; The singularity of the states of affect-representation non-discrimination; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Subjects: Affect. Psychoanalysis. Psychology. Cultural studies. Psychoanalytical theory. Freudian psychology.
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