1. Toward a Revised Form of Analytic Thinking and Practice: The Evolution of Analytic Theory of Mind
- Author
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Thomas H. Ogden
- Subjects
05 social sciences ,General Medicine ,050108 psychoanalysis ,Epistemology ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Clinical Psychology ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Work (electrical) ,Theory of mind ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Sociology ,Psychoanalytic theory ,050104 developmental & child psychology - Abstract
The author tells the stories of the inception of mind that is developed in the work of five analytic theorists whom he sees as central to the evolution of a new and fertile form of psychoanalytic thinking and practice: Freud, Klein, Fairbairn, Winnicott, and Bion. The conception of mind presented by each of these authors moves from that of an apparatus for thinking (in the work of Freud, Klein, and Fairbairn) to that of a process located in the very act of experiencing (in the work of Winnicott and Bion). The work of each of the theorists constitutes a radical transformation of thinking relative to those who have preceded and those who follow him or her. The author, in telling the "stories" of the emergence of mind and the concept of mind according to each of these theorists, offers not only his own narrative structure and clarifications of their work, but also his own interpretations and extensions of their ideas.
- Published
- 2020