Inner Torment Living Between Conflict and

Can hope be pathological? What is love? How are envy and arrogance related to hatred? What is the optimal distance between the self and others? Why are some individuals excessively vulnerable to nostalgia? What are the distinctions between a need and a wi

Preface

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Acknowledgments

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PART I: FOUNDATIONS

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1. Object Constancy

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The Initial Achievement of Object Constancy

Subsequent Reverberations

Syndromes Associated with Disturbed Object Constancy

Technical Implications

Summary

2. Aggression

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Etymology, Meaning, and Psychoanalytic Terminology

Freud's Views on Aggression

Melanie Klein and Heinz Hartmann, and Their Respective Followers

British Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology

Contemporary Reformulations

Synthesis and Reflections

PART II: FEELINGS

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3. Love

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Freud's Views on Love

Views of Contemporary Psychoanalysts

Inability to Fall in Love

Inability to Remain in Love

Falling in Love with the "Wrong" Kinds of People

Inability to Fall out of Love

Inability to Feel Loved

Concluding Remarks

4. Hatred

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Hatred and Its Manifestations

The Relationship of Hatred with Rage, Envy, and Arrogance

Origins of Hatred

Socio-cultural Vicissitudes

Hatred in Transference and Counter-transference

Technical Implications

Concluding Remarks

PART III: FRICTIONS

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5. Kohut Versus Kernberg

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Relationship to General Psychiatry

Regard for the Theoretical Contributions of Predecessors and Contemporaries

Relationship to Mainstream Psychoanalysis

Views on the Narcissistic Personality

Summary and Conclusions

6. Needs Versus Wishes

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Freud's Views on the Need-Wish Distinction

Subsequent Contributions

Synthesis, Caveats, and Beyond

Technical Implications

A Theoretical Postscript

PART IV: FANTASIES

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7. "Someday..." and "If Only..." Fantasies

205

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Some Caveats

The "Someday" Fantasy

The "If Only" Fantasy

Sociocultural Vicissitudes

Technical Implications

Summary

8. Tethers, Orbits, and Invisible Fences

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Definitions

Developmental Perspective

Psychopathology of Optimal Distance

The Tether Fantasy and Its Variants

Sociocultural Vicissitudes

Technical Implications

Summary

References

271

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Credits

309

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Index

311

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