
Bridges
Psychic Structures, Functions, and Processes
Rosemary Gordon(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. January 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-1-56000-819-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book encompasses a wide range of author's diverse explorations and provides readers with rich food for thought-whether their interest is in clinical or cultural issues of the psyche. It re-examines the idea of the self, and explores the distinction between symbols and symbolic experience.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
647 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56000-819-4 (9781560008194)
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Person
Rosemary Gordon was born in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. She moved to South Africa in 1960 where she lived in Durban for 25years. Rosemary left South Africa to travel extensively through Europe before settling in Sonoma, Northern California. Her passions are opera, reading and her family.
Content
Introduction Prologue 1. Jung: Rrebel son or prophet? 2. Conflict: Combat or dance of the soul? 3. The role of self-awareness in a changing culture 4. Moral values and analytic insights Bridges: Intrapsychic Structures and functions 5. Penis as bridge 6. Gods and deintegrates 7. Archetypes on the couch 8. The location of archetypal experience 9. Big self, little self, and individuation 10. The drive towards death: A vector of the self 11. Symbols: Content and process Bridges Broken: Clinical Experience and Practice 12. Projective identification 13. Transference as fulcrum of analysis 14. Countertransference: The twinning of Eros and Agape 15. Narcissism and the self: Who am I that I love? 16. Masochism: The shadow of veneration and worship 17. Paedophilia: Normal and abnormal 18. Curing and healing Bridges Built: Creativity and the Arts 19. Birth and creativity 20. Creativity and therapy 21. Creativity and archetype 22. The drive towards death: A vector of the self 23. Look! He has come through! 24. Jung's concept of synchronicity 25. Creativity in the second half of life