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What enhances and constricts mental space — space for reflection, for feeling, for being open to experience and relationships? The author addresses this question in the light of two issues: first, how we locate psychoanalysis in the history of thought about nature and human nature; second, which psychoanalytic approaches are most useful and resonant with our experience. He then turns to key concepts which bear upon these issues: culture and cultural studies, the analytic space, primitive processes, projective identification and transitional phenomena. In each case he gives a careful exposition of the history of the concept and the debates about it scope and validity, in individual and social terms, including applications to racism, virulent nationalism and group relations (Bion, Jaques, Menzies Lyth).
These expositions have been called ‘models of exegesis’, ‘brilliant’, and ‘masterful’ by readers of the manuscript, and the book has been described as ‘a good read’ and ‘just what is needed’ to make these concepts accessible to students, practitioners and others interested in cultivating human civility. Among its other merits it is arguably the most accessible exposition of basic Kleinian ideas. Particular attention has been paid to the kinds of accounts of human experience which are most enabling, as opposed to those which diminish the depth of the inner world. This is, then, a book about the problematic idea of mental space and about the concepts which the author has found most helpful in understanding what enhances and threatens it.
These expositions have been called ‘models of exegesis’, ‘brilliant’, and ‘masterful’ by readers of the manuscript, and the book has been described as ‘a good read’ and ‘just what is needed’ to make these concepts accessible to students, practitioners and others interested in cultivating human civility. Among its other merits it is arguably the most accessible exposition of basic Kleinian ideas. Particular attention has been paid to the kinds of accounts of human experience which are most enabling, as opposed to those which diminish the depth of the inner world. This is, then, a book about the problematic idea of mental space and about the concepts which the author has found most helpful in understanding what enhances and threatens it.
About the Author
Robert M. Young studies philosophy at Yale and History & Philosophy of Science at Cambridge, where he taught for many years. He is a psychotherapist in private practice in London. He was until his retirement Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Sheffield His writings are concerned with ideass of human nature, science and ideology, psychoanalysis and related matters. He is the founder of Free Associations Books, editor of the journal Free Associations, moderator of a number of email discussion groups and co-editor of the human-nature.com web site, where his writings can be found.
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