Self and Other. Robert Rogers L.

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       Self and Other

      PSYCHOANALYTIC CROSSCURRENTS

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      SEXUALITY AND MIND: THE ROLE OF THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER IN THE PSYCHE

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      ART AND LIFE: ASPECTS OF MICHELANGELO

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      PATHOLOGIES OF THE MODERN SELF: POSTMODERN STUDIES ON NARCISSISM, SCHIZOPHRENIA, AND DEPRESSION

      by David Michael Levin, Editor

      FREUD’S THEORY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

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      THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THE THEORY OF PSYCHONEUROSES

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      CHANGING MIND-SETS: THE POTENTIAL UNCONSCIOUS

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      LANGUAGE AND THE DISTORTION OF MEANING

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      THE NEUROTIC FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL ORDER

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      SELF AND OTHER: OBJECT RELATIONS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERATURE

      by Robert Rogers

      SELF AND OTHER

      Object Relations in

      Psychoanalysis and Literature

      Robert Rogers

      Copyright © 1991 by New York University

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Rogers, Robert, 1928–

      Self and other : object relations in psychoanalysis and literature

      /Robert Rogers.

      p. cm.—(Psychoanalytic crosscurrents)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 0-8147-7418-0

      1. Object relations (Psychoanalysis) 2. Object relations

      (Psychoanalysis) in literature. I. Title. II. Series.

      BF175.5.024R64 1991

      155.9′2–dc20 91-25953

       CIP

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       For my mother and father: in memoriam

       This is most strange,

      That she whom even but now was your best object,

      The argument of your praise, balm of your age,

      The best, the dearest, should in this trice of time

      Commit a thing so monstrous to dismande

      So many folds of favor.

      —France to Lear, in King Lear

      Being a self with others entails a constant dialectic

      between attachment and self-definition, between

      connection and differentiation, a continual negotiation

      between one’s wishes and will and the wishes and will

      of others, between one’s own subjective reality and

      a consensual reality of others with whom one lives.

      —Stephen Mitchell, Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis

       CONTENTS

       Foreword

       Preface

       PART I. Modeling Interpersonal Relations

       1. Drive versus Person: Two Orientations

       2. Toward a Unified Theory of Object Relations

       PART II. Stories of Real Persons

       3. Freud’s Cases Reread

       4. Gabrielle, Anna, Renee, Joey: Four Case Histories

       PART III. The Imagined Self and Other

       5. The Stepmother World of Moby Dick

       6. Meursault’s Estrangement

       7. The Sequestered Self of Emily Dickinson

       8. Self and Other in Shakespearean Tragedy

       References

       Index

FOREWORD

      The Psychoanalytic Crosscurrents series presents selected books and monographs that reveal the growing intellectual ferment within and across the boundaries of psychoanalysis.

      Freud’s