A Mind of One's Own

This collection of papers, written over the last six years by Robert Caper, focuses on the importance of psychological development of distinguishing self from object, and the central role that this difficult psychological disentanglement plays in the therapeutic effect of psychoanalysis. In doing so, the author explains what differentiates the practice of psychoanalysis from psychotherapy; while psychotherapy aims to ease the client towards "good mental health" through careful suggestion and manipulation of the client's character, psychoanalysis attempts the more radical task of allowing the client to discover who he/she is and isn't. In particular, it seeks to allow the client to see the internal and external reality, clear of fantasies, with the self wholly distinguished from other people and other objects.

Acknowledgements

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Introduction

1

(8)

Psychoanalysis and suggestion: reflections on James Strachey's `The nature of the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis'

9

(10)

Does psychoanalysis heal? A contribution to the theory of psychoanalytic technique

19

(13)

Introduction

Projective identification in the analytic process

Origins of the analyst's need to cure

The emotional difficulties of psychoanalysis for the analyst

The psychoanalyst as a real object

Technical considerations

Conclusion

On the difficulty of making a mutative interpretation

32

(13)

Introduction

The interplay of transference and countertransference

Clinical examples

Discussion

Strachey's `auxiliary superego'

The group superego

The superego and containment

Conclusion

What is a clinical fact?

45

(14)

Introduction

Evidence of psychoanalysis

Isolation within an intimate relationship

The aesthetic conflict

Psychic reality

Discussion

Psychic reality and the analysis of transference

59

(11)

Psychic reality

Transference

Clinical example

Transference analysis

Analysis of the archaic superego

Psychopathology and primitive mental states

70

(14)

Primitive mental states

Abnormal mental states and the failure to learn from experience

Unconscious delusions and unconscious phantasies

Clinical illustration

A theoretical fallacy

Psychoanalytic reconstruction

Summary and conclusions

Play, creativity and experimentation

84

(11)

Introduction

Playing and experimentation

Experimental play in psychoanalysis

Experimental disasters in psychotic states

Experimentation and sexuality

Symbol formation and creativity

Conclusion

Internal objects

95

(16)

Unconscious conceptions

Paranoid-schizoid internal objects

Depressive internal objects

Clinical example

Recapitulation

The internal world and the Oedipus complex

A mind of one's own

111

(16)

Introduction

Narcissistic aspects of the transference

Non-narcissistic aspects of the transference

Oedipal aspects of the transference

Clinical illustration

Discussion

On alpha function

127

(11)

Introduction

Alpha elements

Beta elements

Beta elements and countertransference

A theory of the container

138

(18)

Introduction

Freudian repression and Kleinian splitting and projection

The theory of the container

Urgent and aggressive projective identification

Alpha function and beta elements

Synthetic alpha function

The role of unconscious phantasy in the sense of reality

Anti-alpha function

Analytic alpha function

Clinical illustrations

Containment, security and insecurity

Bibliography

156

(5)

Index

161

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