Rizzolo Gregory S.
Rizzolo Gregory S. - The Critique Of Regression A Psychoanalytic Model Of Irreversible Lifespan Development - Paperback
Rizzolo Gregory S. - The Critique Of Regression A Psychoanalytic Model Of Irreversible Lifespan Development - Paperback
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Description: The Critique of Regression presents the most in - depth critique of regression available in the psychoanalytic literature whilst presenting the first psychoanalytic theory of irreversible lifespan development. The clinical implications are amply demonstrated in three chapter - length psychoanalytic cases. The most important implication is that when we revisit the past in a private memory or in an analytic session we remake it afresh in light of the present. The analysis of the past is always in this sense an exploration of the present. Gregory S. Rizzolo demonstrates that where we think we see returns or regressions to past stages of the lifespan we in fact find the emergence of novel structures in subjective experience. Rizzolo considers the work of human development to be a work of mourning in which we lose internalize and keep re - working the residue of a past to which we never return. The traditional notion of regression which supports the fantasy of a literal return operates as an intellectual defense against the mourning process. To critique the concept is to address the defense and to confront the loss of past relationships and of past versions of selfhood inherent in development. From the work of mourning emerge ever - new configurations of desire defense and subjective meaning. The task of analysis is to cultivate amidst the repetition of familiar patterns the potential for novelty at play in each moment. This thought - provoking work will interest new and experienced psychoanalytic clinicians alike who want to go beyond traditional theories of development to a contemporary look at how we develop inexorably across the lifespan.
Title: The Critique Of Regression A Psychoanalytic Model Of Irreversible Lifespan Development
Author(s): Rizzolo Gregory S.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138624405
Pages: 220 Pages
Publication Date: 12/19/2018
Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
Category: Psychotherapy
Description: The Critique of Regression presents the most in - depth critique of regression available in the psychoanalytic literature whilst presenting the first psychoanalytic theory of irreversible lifespan development. The clinical implications are amply demonstrated in three chapter - length psychoanalytic cases. The most important implication is that when we revisit the past in a private memory or in an analytic session we remake it afresh in light of the present. The analysis of the past is always in this sense an exploration of the present. Gregory S. Rizzolo demonstrates that where we think we see returns or regressions to past stages of the lifespan we in fact find the emergence of novel structures in subjective experience. Rizzolo considers the work of human development to be a work of mourning in which we lose internalize and keep re - working the residue of a past to which we never return. The traditional notion of regression which supports the fantasy of a literal return operates as an intellectual defense against the mourning process. To critique the concept is to address the defense and to confront the loss of past relationships and of past versions of selfhood inherent in development. From the work of mourning emerge ever - new configurations of desire defense and subjective meaning. The task of analysis is to cultivate amidst the repetition of familiar patterns the potential for novelty at play in each moment. This thought - provoking work will interest new and experienced psychoanalytic clinicians alike who want to go beyond traditional theories of development to a contemporary look at how we develop inexorably across the lifespan.
Title: The Critique Of Regression A Psychoanalytic Model Of Irreversible Lifespan Development
Author(s): Rizzolo Gregory S.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138624405
Pages: 220 Pages
Publication Date: 12/19/2018
Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
Category: Psychotherapy
