On a Darkling Plain Journies into the

Using examples from art, film, literature and the lives of famous people, this book explains psychoanalytical thinking, its relevance to everyday life, and its ability to illuminate the nature of human society and culture.

Introduction

vii

The Unconscious

1

(38)

Phil Mollon

The Lewd Interloper

1

(1)

Is the Unconscious a Valid Concept?

2

(2)

Farts, Stains and Lies

4

(3)

Dreams

7

(6)

How Dreams Represent Ideas

13

(4)

The Cognitive Unconscious

17

(2)

The Unconscious Mode of Thought in Psychotic States

19

(3)

Psychotic Explusion

22

(1)

Unconscious Representations in Everyday Life

23

(2)

Warnings and Advice From the Unconscious

25

(1)

Unconscious Representations of Frightening Reality

26

(1)

Various Realms of the Unconscious

27

(3)

The Neuropsychological Unconscious

30

(1)

A Hierarchy of Consciousness or Multiple Consciousnesses?

31

(1)

The Infinite Unconscious

32

(3)

Notes

35

(3)

Further Reading

38

(1)

Anxiety

39

(32)

Ricky Emanuel

Introduction

39

(1)

What is Anxiety?

40

(2)

Repression

42

(1)

Automatic and Signal Anxiety

42

(3)

Binding Anxiety

45

(1)

Melanie Klein's Views of Anxiety

46

(3)

Play and Phantasy

49

(3)

Terror

52

(3)

Depressive Anxiety

55

(1)

Anxieties About Learning

56

(1)

Containment of Anxiety

57

(2)

Separation Anxiety

59

(3)

Knowing and Not Knowing

62

(2)

Nameless Dread, Naming and Failures of Containment

64

(2)

Premonition of Emotion

66

(1)

Acknowledgements

67

(1)

Notes

68

(1)

Further Reading

69

(2)

Phantasy

71

(30)

Julia Segal

Introduction

71

(1)

The Basic Idea: Daydreams

71

(1)

Daydreams with Long-term Effect

72

(1)

Disguises

73

(2)

Interpretation

75

(1)

The Freudian Background

76

(2)

Dreams

78

(1)

Klein: Children's Play

79

(3)

Phantasies as Perception

82

(2)

Primitive Phantasies

84

(1)

Hunger Phantasies

85

(1)

The Importance of Trut

86

(1)

Phantasies in Action

87

(5)

Functions of Phantasy

92

(1)

Phantasies of Splitting the Mother Mean Splitting the Self

93

(1)

Denial

94

(1)

Counselling/Psychotherapy/Psychoanalysis

95

(1)

Using the Ideas Outside the Consulting Room

96

(1)

Psychoanalysis

97

(1)

Conclusion

97

(2)

Notes

99

(1)

Further Reading

99

(2)

Oedipus Complex

101

(38)

Robert M. Young

Freudian Ideas of the Oedipus Complex

101

(3)

A Closer Look at Oedipal Dynamics

104

(5)

Kleinian Ideas

109

(3)

Freud and Oedipus Rex

112

(3)

Exposition of Klein's Views

115

(1)

Recent Kleinian Ideas

116

(5)

Challenges to Developmental Determinism

121

(1)

Anti-Naturalistic Critiques of the Oedipus Complex

122

(4)

Conclusion

126

(3)

Notes

129

(4)

Further Reading

133

(6)

Guilt

139

(34)

Kalu Singh

Introduction

139

(1)

Ruling Passions

140

(2)

Can Fuck, Won't Cook

142

(4)

The Running Wife

146

(1)

The Stoned Man

147

(1)

The Good Criminal

148

(2)

The Unbecoming Mourning Girl

150

(2)

See Melanie Play

152

(3)

Stop Making Sense

155

(7)

Speak Up Ye Buggers! Start Making Sense

162

(3)

Roll Away the Stone

165

(2)

Coda

167

(2)

Notes

169

(2)

Further Reading

171

(2)

Narcissism

173

(32)

Jeremy Holmes

Introduction

173

(2)

Clinical Manifestations of Narcissism

175

(5)

Literary Examples of Narcissism

180

(6)

Theorising Narcissism

186

(9)

The Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Narcissistic Difficulties

195

(6)

Notes

201

(1)

Further Reading

202

(3)

Phobia

205

(34)

Ivan Ward

A Bridge Too Far

205

(1)

Helter Skelter

205

(3)

Charles and Alfred

208

(1)

The Birds

209

(2)

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

211

(3)

The Naked Diner

214

(3)

Social Panics and Phobic Objects

217

(3)

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

220

(3)

Transformations

223

(1)

The Horror, the Horror

224

(4)

A Classification of Phobias?

228

(1)

Confronting the Monster

229

(3)

Treatment

232

(2)

Notes

234

(2)

Further Reading

236

(3)

Eros

239

(28)

Nicola Abel-Hirsch

Eros

239

(3)

Eros in the Body

242

(7)

Eros in the Emotions

249

(4)

Eros in the Mind

253

(7)

Conclusion

260

(1)

Acknowledgements

261

(1)

Notes

262

(2)

Further Reading

264

(3)

Libido

267

(32)

Roger Kennedy

Introduction

267

(3)

No Libido Please, We're British!

270

(3)

Freud's Early Theory of Libido/The Missing Link

273

(3)

Elaboration of Libido Theory/Dammed Libido

276

(5)

Development of the Libido/Stages in Life's Way

281

(9)

Narcissism and Libido/Self and Love

290

(3)

The Human Subject and the Drives/The Transformational Pathway

293

(3)

Notes

296

(1)

Further Reading

297

(2)

Sublimation

299

(37)

Kalu Singh

Introduction

299

(3)

Kunstry Matters

302

(2)

Sexual Annealing

304

(14)

Mindin' i&i Own Business

318

(5)

Lipstick as Your Collar

323

(4)

Foundationed Deep, Somehow

327

(3)

Thinking's Gonna Change My World

330

(1)

Acknowledgements

331

(1)

Notes

332

(3)

Further Reading

335

(1)

Index

336

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