ISBN:
9781782202554
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (265 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Greed : Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
DDC:
152.4
Keywords:
Psychoanalysis
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Affect (Psychology)
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Culture
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Emotions
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Abstract:
Though references to it are scattered in the writings of Klein and Winnicott, the topic of greed has drawn meagre attention from contemporary psychoanalysts. This book fills that lacuna. Noting that the inconsolable, relentless, and coercive dimensions of such hunger have profoundly destructive impact upon the self and its objects, Greed: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms sheds light on the emotion's myriad manifestations as well as its camouflage by the ego's defensive operations. Issues of childhood deprivation, adolescent novelty-seeking, and clinging to the object-world toward t
Description / Table of Contents:
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I DEVELOPMENTAL REALM; CHAPTER ONE The development of greed in childhood; CHAPTER TWO Anticipatory greed and compensatory greed as developmental steps during adolescence; CHAPTER THREE Primal greed, developmental greed, and terminal greed; PART II CULTURAL REALM; CHAPTER FOUR Greed in the life of William Shakespeare and generosity in the life of Edward De Vere, aka "Shakespeare"; CHAPTER FIVE Corporate greed and the new class system; CHAPTER SIX Greed in Hollywood movies; PART III CLINICAL REALM
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER SEVEN Meanings, manifestations, and management of greedCHAPTER EIGHT Greed in the context of marriage and other close relationships; CHAPTER NINE Greed, greediness, and greedy patients; CHAPTER TEN The analyst's greed; REFERENCES; INDEX
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