Anxiety Defences:

Origin, Functioning and Evolution: Part I

This responsive commentary is in three main parts, following the text of the original authors.

Chapter One 'General Introduction' by Joan Riviere, (pp.1-36)
Chapter Two 'On The Genesis of Psychical Conflict in Earliest Infancy' by Joan Riviere, (pp.37-66)
Chapter Four 'Certain Functions of Introjection and Projection in Early Infancy' by Paula Heimann (pp.122-168)

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Dynamics of Unconscious Resistance
Chapter 1: Introjection and Projection I
Chapter 1: Manic Defence
Chapter 1: Origin of Anxiety
Chapter 1: Splitting Mechanisms
Chapter 1: Introjection and Projection II
Chapter 1: Implications and Reactions to the Kleinian Construct
Chapter 2: Commentary
Chapter 4: Introduction
Chapter 4: Id, Ego and Super-Ego
Chapter 4: Object Relations
Chapter 4: Depression
Chapter 4: Auto Eroticism, Narcissism, and Early Relations to Objects
Chapter 4: Paranoid Position
Chapter 4: 'Inner World and Outer World'

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Anxiety Defences:

Origin, Functioning and Evolution: Part I

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