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Beyond Ego Psychology Author: Gertrude Blanck

ISBN: 9780231062664 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 212 Published: 1 January 1986 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 24.13 x 16.51 x 1.91 Description:

In this, the third volume in the acclaimed series on ego psychology, Rubin and Gertrude Blanck advance ego psychology beyond its position as a psychoanalytic developmental psychology, and present a developmental object relations theory.

In "Beyond Ego Psychololgy: Developmental Object Relations Theory" the authors remain, as always, firmly rooted in psychoanalytic theory while elaborating upon it. While their earlier work integrated the structural theory with the ego psychology that flowed from it, here they have extended Freud's concept of the "Gesamt Ich," the ego as a whole, which they describe as superordinate to the ego of structure. Their work is distinctive because they add new dimensions to theory construction without discarding such basics as drive theory and conflict theory.

This new volume revives Freud's thoughts about object realations, and adds developmental theory to provide an integrated object relations theory. Object relations, the Blancks propose, arise out of the interaction between self and object representations and can be defined as the resultants of that interaction.

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