The Loss of Self: Self-Writing as a Tool in Borderline Psychoanalysis

Auteur

Jean-François Chiantaretto is a Paris-based psychoanalyst and professor emeritus of clinical psychopathology at Sorbonne Paris North University. Trained in philosophy and clinical psychology, he is a member and scientific secretary of the Quatrième Groupe.

Texte du rabat

The Loss of Self considers distinctions and connections between the writing of survival and survival as a mode of being and thinking encountered in analytic work with borderline patients.

Contenu

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Prologue: Back and Forth between Treatment and Writing

Part One

The Beginnings

Chapter I

Unease about Origins, Unease at the Origins

Chapter II

The Original, the Originary

Part Two

Renewing Psychoanalysis

Chapter I

The Ferenczian Renewal

Chapter II

Beginning, Starting Over

Chapter III

Welcoming the Unwelcome Child

Part Three

Writing at the Borderline

Chapter I

Survival in Words

Chapter II

Writing for...

Chapter III

Writing against...

Part Four

Borderline Existence

Chapter I

Disappearance or Loss

Chapter II

From Culture to Treatment: Malaise in Transparency

Epilogue

The Analyst's Transference, Transferential Writing

Addendum

The Self in Question