Author | Mendelsohn, Roy M. author |
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Title | The Synthesis of Self [electronic resource] : Volume 1 the I of Consciousness Development from Birth to Maturity / by Roy M. Mendelsohn |
Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1987 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1945-0 |
Descript | 370p. online resource |
1. Body Ego Experience and the Nuclear Self: The Onset of Unconscious Perception -- 2. The Qualities of Perceptual Experience and Object Impressions: The Self- and Object Representational Systems -- 3. Libido as Object Seeking and the Mechanism of Splitting: An Integration of Libidinal and Object Relations Theory -- 4. Separation-Individuation: The Formation of New Psychic Structures -- 5. The Onset of Cohesiveness: The Formationand Function of the Grandiose Self and the Ego Ideal -- 6. The Pregenital Phases of Psychosexual Development: The Evolution of Focused Perceptual Functions and Boundaries and the Preconditions forthe Establishment of an Oedipal Conflict -- 7. The Oedipal Conflict as a Psychic Organizer -- 8. The Resolution of the Oedipal Conflict: The Consolidation of the Superego into an Independently Functioning Agency and the Process of Alteration inthe Fixation Points -- 9. Significance of the Latency Period -- 10. Pubescence: Relinquishing the Attachment to Primary Infantile Objects and Their Replacement with New Objects -- 11. The Final Step to Maturity: The Genital Character -- References