Post Kleinian Psychoanalysis

KENNETH SANDERS POST-KLEINIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS TheBiellaSeminars Foreword by DONALD MELTZER KARNAC POST-KLEINIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS POST-KLEIN IAN PSYCHOANALYSIS The Biella Seminars Kenneth Sanders Foreword by Donald Meltzer London & New York KARNAC BOOKS First published in 2001 by H. Karnac (Books) Ltd, 118 Finchley Road, London NW3 5HT A subsidiary of Other Press LLC, New York Copyright © 2001 Kenneth Sanders The rights of Kenneth Sanders to be identified as the author of this work have been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C L P . for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 85575 249 8 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Edited, designed, and produced by Communication Crafts www.karnacbooks.com Printed in Great Britain by Biddies Short Run Books, King's Lynn CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOREWORD VII by D o n a l d Meltze r ix PREFACE XI 1 Prologue a n d a consultation 2 A n a d o l e s c e n t emerges f r o m c o n f u s i o n 11 3 D r e a m s : w h o w r i t e s t h e script? 23 4 Identification a n d the toileting of the m i n d 39 5 T h e m e r m a i d a n d t h e sirens 53 6 T h e c o m b i n e d part-object: 1 from "the w o m a n w i t h a penis" to " t h e breast-and-nipple" 65 v Vi 7 CONTENTS T h e c o m b i n e d p a r t - o b j e c t in infan t o b s e r v a t i o n and practice 79 8 The Oedipus comple x and introjective identification 89 9 Psychosomatic and somapsychotic 10 Epilogue: 101 c l a u s t r o p h i l i a a n d th e " p e r e n n i a l p h i l o s o p h y " 111 REFERENCES 121 INDEX 125 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am especially indebted to Selina Marsoni Sella for her invita­ tion to contribute to the teaching at the school in Italy that she founded in 1990—the Scuola Biellese di Psicoterapia Psicoana­ litica. Her enthusiasm for the work was a constant encouragement to the seminar. The membership of the seminars varied over the years, so that the names of the most regular contributors to the discussions, listed below in grateful acknowledgement, must stand for all. Lydia Bozzolo Antonella Graziano Selina Marsoni Sella Carla Perinotti Marco Rolando Mario Sabucco Pieralda Stagliano Marilena Vottero " T o my friends pictured within" was the dedication (after Elgar and his Enigma Variations) that I chose to express