About the book
In The Violence of Emotions the author marries an ability to introduce the reader to the intimate climate of an analytic session with a passionate rereading of Bion. To emphasize both the empirical nature of psychoanalysis and its extraordinary capacity to engender illuminating hypotheses concerning the functioning of the mind, clinical examples alternate with theoretical argument. The psychoanalytic model espoused by Giuseppe Civitarese in his approach to both is analytic field theory. Developed by various authors, including Ferro, commencing with Bion and continued with contributions from the Barangers, Grotstein and Ogden, the theory of the analytic field reveals the social nature of subjectivity and, in clinical work, the intersubjective and dreamlike climate in which a psychoanalytic session unfolds. This leads to a new way of interpreting the facts of analysis. As such, topics of discussion include:
- transcending the caesura as Bion’s theoretical method
- hypochondria as de-subjectivation and narrative genre in analysis
- the aesthetic conflict and alfa function
- Bion’s search for ambiguity
- the casting of characters in the analytic dialogue
- metaphor of text and translation in Freud and Bion.
Yet the book has an even more specific objective, focusing attention as it does on the central importance of emotions in mental life and of aesthetic experience as the model of what truly happens in analysis. This is an aspect which the author rediscovers and explores in the thought of Bion and his successors, and which he regards as a way of investigating the deepest and most primitive levels of mental life. This book will be of great interest to psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists.
Editions of The Violence of Emotions
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- ISBN 9781136192500
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In The Violence of Emotions the author marries an ability to introduce the reader to the intimate climate of an analytic session with a passionate rereading of Bion. To emphasize both the empirical nature of psychoanalysis and its extraordinary capacity to engender illuminating hypotheses concerning the functioning of the mind, clinical examples alternate with theoretical argument. The psychoanalytic model espoused by Giuseppe Civitarese in his approach to both is analytic field theory. Developed by various authors, including Ferro, commencing with Bion and continued with contributions from the Barangers, Grotstein and Ogden, the theory of the analytic field reveals the social nature of subjectivity and, in clinical work, the intersubjective and dreamlike climate in which a psychoanalytic session unfolds. This leads to a new way of interpreting the facts of analysis. As such, topics of discussion include:
- transcending the caesura as Bion’s theoretical method
- hypochondria as de-subjectivation and narrative genre in analysis
- the aesthetic conflict and alfa function
- Bion’s search for ambiguity
- the casting of characters in the analytic dialogue
- metaphor of text and translation in Freud and Bion.
Yet the book has an even more specific objective, focusing attention as it does on the central importance of emotions in mental life and of aesthetic experience as the model of what truly happens in analysis. This is an aspect which the author rediscovers and explores in the thought of Bion and his successors, and which he regards as a way of investigating the deepest and most primitive levels of mental life. This book will be of great interest to psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists.
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What is The Violence of Emotions about?
In The Violence of Emotions the author marries an ability to introduce the reader to the intimate climate of an analytic session with a passionate rereading of Bion. To emphasize both the empirical nature of psychoanalysis and its extraordinary capacity to engender illuminating hypotheses concerning the functioning of the mind, clinical examples alternate with theoretical argument. The psychoanalytic model espoused by Giuseppe Civitarese in his approach to both is analytic field theory. Developed by various authors, including Ferro, commencing with Bion and continued with contributions from the Barangers, Grotstein and Ogden, the theory of the analytic field reveals the social nature of subjectivity and, in clinical work, the intersubjective and dreamlike climate in which a psychoanalytic session unfolds. This leads to a new way of interpreting the facts of analysis. As such, topics of discussion include:
- transcending the caesura as Bion’s theoretical method
- hypochondria as de-subjectivation and narrative genre in analysis
- the aesthetic conflict and alfa function
- Bion’s search for ambiguity
- the casting of characters in the analytic dialogue
- metaphor of text and translation in Freud and Bion.
Yet the book has an even more specific objective, focusing attention as it does on the central importance of emotions in mental life and of aesthetic experience as the model of what truly happens in analysis. This is an aspect which the author rediscovers and explores in the thought of Bion and his successors, and which he regards as a way of investigating the deepest and most primitive levels of mental life. This book will be of great interest to psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in The Violence of Emotions?
Society and Social Sciences > Psychology > Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints > Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology
Where can I read a sample of The Violence of Emotions?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781136192494
Is The Violence of Emotions part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
Who is/are the Author/s of the book The Violence of Emotions?
Giuseppe Civitarese
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
The Violence of Emotions is available as ebook(ISBN 9781136192494) and pdf(ISBN 9781136192500)