A Meltzer Reader: an introduction to the work of Donald Meltzer

CONTENTS

1 Psychoanalysis as a human activity

(extract from The Psychoanalytical Process, introduced by Kenneth Sanders)

2 Dream Life: the generative theatre of meaning

(extract from Dream Life, introduced by Miriam Botbol)

3 Temperature and distance

(introduced by Neil Maizels)

4 A psychoanalytical model of the child-in-the-family-in-the-community: the structural dimension

(extract introduced by Martina Campart)

5 Money-Kyrle’s concept of misconception: a discussion

(extract introduced by Lars Thorgaard and Jon Morgan Stokkeland)

6 The delusion of clarity of insight

(extract from The Claustrum introduced by Tomas Plaenkers)

7 Tyranny

(extract from Sexual States of Mind introduced by Irene Freeden)

8 Dimensionality, adhesive identification, splitting

(extract from Explorations in Autism introduced by Renata Li Causi)

9 The impact of Bion’s ideas

(extract from Studies in Extended Metapsychology introduced by Selina Marsoni)

10 Aesthetic conflict

(extract from The Apprehension of Beauty introduced by Lennart Ramberg)

11 On Bion’s Grid – later thoughts

(introduced by Robert Oelsner)

12 Sign, symbol and allegory

(introduced by the Meltzer Study Group, Stavanger)

13 Some personal statements