The Porous Self: To Love and Mourn

Philosophy of Psychoanalysis - A podcast by Nina McIlwain

Object relations in loss. This lecture is the second of two that address: Ego as precipitate of identifications, Kohut's self-psychology; Freud's view of mourning; Melancholia; Freud’s diagnostic use of mourning - reality testing, identification, intorjection; Contextualising Frued's writing on mourning - usefulness of ego-instincts; An extended sense of self & importance of others in the formation of feeling - extended sense of self, interpersonal impact on emotion experience (Boll...