Main description:

Comprehensive guide to understanding loss in psychoanalysis * Includes information on the key theorists in psychoanalysis * Suitable for analysts and therapists in practice and in training

Contents:

Introduction: Mourning and the internal world in psychoanalysis and literature 1. Sigmund Freud: Early explorations - mapping the territory of the mind 2. Sigmund Freud: Later models - identification, internal structure, and the ubiquity of loss 3. Sandor Ferenczi: Inventing introjection; Karl Abraham: Phenomenologist of depression 4. Melanie Klein: Positioning the object and rebuilding the internal world 5. Hans Loewald: Turning ghosts into ancestors - internalisation and emancipation 6. Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok: Rescuing introjection from the crypts of incorporation 7. Andre Green: Fading and framing - the metaphorical mother lost and restored Conclusion: Meaning, mourning, and mortality in Freud and Auden