The Primitive Edge of Experience

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction 1 The Structure of Experience 9 Experience in a Depressive Mode 11 Experience in a Paranoid-Schizoid Mode The Autistic-Contiguous Mode of Generating Experience 30 The Autistic-Contiguous Position 47 Primitive Organization of Experience The Nature of Sensation-Dominated Experience Autistic-Contiguous Experience and Pathological Autism 59 The Nature of Autistic-Contiguous Anxiety Autistic-Contiguous Modes of Defense 70 Internalization in the Autistic-Contiguous Position 73 Autistic-Contiguous Anxiety and the Binding Power of Symbols 77 The Schizoid Condition 83 Schizoid Phenomena 84 The Contributions of Winnicott and Guntrip Clinical Illustration: If a Tree Falls in the Forest 92 The Transitional Oedipal Relationship in Female Development 109 The Female Oedipal Narrative 110 The Developmental Context 115 The Transitional Relationship 118 Psychopathology and the Oedipal Transitional Relationship 123 A Reevaluation of the Freudian Female Oedipal Narrative 130 Transference-Countertransference Implications 133 Implications for the Development of Gender Identity 137 The Threshold of the Male Oedipus Complex 141 Freud`s Perspective 143 The Scylla and Charybdis of the Threshold of the Male Oedipus Complex 146 The Organization of Sexual Meaning 148 Transitional Oedipal Object Relatedness 152 Clinical Illustration 156 The Absence of Thirdness 165 The Initial Analytic Meeting 169 Creating Analytic Significance 170 Sustaining Psychological Strain in the Analytic Setting 775 Cautionary Tales 181 The Timing of Transference Interpretations Analytic Space 188 Anxious Questioning 190 Creating a History 191 Concluding Comments 193