Description Freud described changes in the structure of the mind, including the consolidation of the superego with resolution of the oedipal complex.
By looking into the differences (and similarities) in the ways each girl responded to interventions by her analyst, the authors explore psychoanalytic technique and therapeutic action, including the many manifestations of in.
These include psychic structure, the self, the similarities and differences between a mind that is vulnerable to fragmentation and one that is not, and the internal states associated with fragmentation and trauma.
Comparison of these two young girls and their analyses enables the authors to illustrate and describe important mental phenomena and psychoanalytic concepts.
During her analysis, her stymied development was freed up, and the authors trace the changes within her as psychic structure consolidated and oedipal material took center stage.
Her psychic structure, her self, was not cohesive, and she was vulnerable to fragmentation.
At the start of her analysis, the second child contended with anxiety about loss of the object and abandonment, and she struggled with the process of separation/individuation.
Because she had several experiences that overwhelmed her emotional capacities prior to entering the oedipal phase of development, her oedipal experience was filled with anxiety and overstimulation.
One began analysis having already achieved the transition to a more enduring and reliable psychic structure, a cohesive self.
This book closely examines the analyses of two little girls.
While each of these authors developed his or her own language and concepts, they all described a fundamental transition in the structure and working of the mind that has profound importance for the psychological functioning of the child and the adult she later becomes.
Important psychoanalytic thinkers since Freud have studied and emphasized the role of pre-oedipal development in the creation of psychological structure.
Description Freud described changes in the structure of the mind, including the consolidation of the superego with resolution of the oedipal complex
