Life drive & death drive, libido & lethe : a formalized consistent model of psychoanalytic drive and structure theory /
Life drive and death drive, libido and lethe
Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau ; translated by Philip Slotkin.
- xi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-299) and index.
Foundations of the Model. General Functional Principle and Quantitative Aspect. Construction of the Psychical Apparatus. The D-P-M System. Extroversion and Introversion of Psychic Processes. The Antagonism of Drive and Repression -- Elaboration of the Model. The Principle of Structural Development. Repression as a Drive. Single and Double D-P-M Unities. The Subject-Object Track. Differentiation and Integration. Narcissism: The Drive Aspect and the Structural Aspect. The Construction of Comprehensive Representations: The Ego Ideal. Microanalysis of Drive Processes. Extension of the D-P-M System and Introduction of the Biogenic Zones. Principles of Combinatorial Switching. The Mind-Body Question and the Introduction of the Pucs -- The Shape of the Model. The Final Version of the Drive Theory. Pleasure and Unpleasure in Relation to Tension and Excitation. Lethe: The Introduction of a New Notion of Energy. Figure and Ground: A Change of Perspective. The Definitive Version of the Structure Theory. The Superego and Identification. The Ego and Perception. The Relations between Id, Superego, and Ego. Prospect: Metapsychology as a Bridging Conception. Comparison of A Luria's Model of the Brain with the Metapsychological Model of the Mind. The Unit for Regulating Tone, Waking, and Mental States. The Unit for Receiving, Analyzing, and Storing Information. The Unit for Programming, Regulation, and Verification of Activity. Pt. I. Pt. II. Pt. III.
"Twenty years offer Freud's metapsychology all but succumbed to rigorous criticism in the United States, Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau's comprehensive dissection of the theoretical foundations of psychoanalysis affords a new approach to the classical model of the psychical apparatus, which here appears in a surprisingly modern light. In her reconstruction of the dynamic system of the psyche, she introduces a number of novel concepts - such as lethe to denote the energy of a self-preservative death drive directed primarily inward onto the subject's own person - which have the potential not only to widen our overall view of psychic functioning but also to revolutionize our clinical understanding."--BOOK JACKET.