Table of Contents

Acknowledgements. Steiner, Introduction. Part One: Clinical Psychoanalysis. On the Clinical Usefulness of the Concept of Death Instinct. Phantasy and Reality. On Symbolism. A Delusional System as a Defence Against the Re-emergence of a Catastrophic Situation. Early Infantile Development as Reflected in the Psychoanalytical Process: Steps in Integration. Some Clinical Implications of Melanie Klein's Work: Emergence from Narcissism. Paranoid Anxiety and Paranoia. Termination: Sweating it Out. The Uses and Abuses of Counter-transference. Part Two: Literature and Politics. Joseph Conrad and the Mid-life Crisis. Salman Rushdie and the Sea of Stories: A Not So Simple Fable About Creativity. Silence is the Real Crime. From Hiroshima to the Gulf War and After: Socio-political Expressions of Ambivalence. References. Name Index. Subject Index.

About the Author

Hanna Segal is a member, Training Analyst and former president of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. She has also served as Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis in the University of London and as Vice President of the International Psychoanalytical Association.