PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies - Special Research Course Reading list

The ‘Different Self’: Idealisation, Narcissism and the Ideal Ego Summer Term 2013

Dr Robbie Duschinsky

In investigating the issue of narcissism, Freud forges a powerful account of the relationship between the ego, its ideals and the body. Building on Freud’s account, and those of later analysts, the seminars will focus on the interpretation of ideals of perfection, plenitude and purity. Our reading on the economic problem of narcissism will be oriented, in particular, by Juliet Mitchell’s chapter ‘The Different Self, the Phallus and the Father’ in Psychoanalysis and Feminism, and her work on the lateral axis. In the course of our exploration, we will also consider contemporary debates in American psychiatry over whether or not to remove ‘Narcissistic Personality Disorder’ as a diagnostic category from DSM-5.

Preliminary Reading for Session 1 Philip Crockatt (2006): Freud's ‘On narcissism: an introduction’, Journal of

Child Psychotherapy, 32:01, 4-20 Sigmund Freud (1914) ‘On Narcissism’, translated in Standard Edition 14 and/or

http://www.freud2lacan.com/docs/On_Narcissim_with_Introduction.pdf Sigmund Freud (1916-1917) ‘The Libido Theory and Narcissism’ Lecture 26 of the

Introductory Lectures, translated in Standard Edition 16.

Key texts Aaron Pincus and Mark Lukowitsky (2010) ‘Pathological Narcissism and Narcissistic

Personality Disorder’ Annual Review of Clinical Psychology 6(8): 1-26 André Green (1982) Life Narcissism, Death Narcissism, London: Karnac Béla Grunberger (1989) New Essays on Narcissism, London: Karnac Edith Jacobson (1954) The Self and the Object World—Vicissitudes of their Infantile

Cathexes and their Influence on Ideational and Affective Development Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 9:75-127

Heinz Kohut (1971) Analysis of the Self, International Universities Press Jacques Lacan (1953-4) ‘The Topic of the Imaginary’ in Freud’s Papers on Technique, NY:

Norton Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel (1985) Ego Ideal, NY: Free Association Press Jean Laplanche (1976) Life and Death in Psychoanalysis, Baltimore, Maryland: John

Hopkins University Press Joseph Sandler, Peter Fonagy and Ethel Spector Person ed. (1991) Freud's On

Narcissism: An Introduction, London: Karnac Juliet Mitchell (2000) Siblings, Cambridge: Polity Rosine J. Perelberg (2004) ‘Narcissistic Configurations’ The International Journal of

Psychoanalysis 85(5): 1065–1079 Sara Beardsworth (2004) ‘Narcissism’ in Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity,

NY: SUNY Sigmund Freud (1915) ‘Instincts and their vicissitudes’ translated in Standard Edition

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