Psychoanalytic Concepts and Technique in Development offers a clear and thorough overview of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and clinical technique, from a largely post-Freudian, French perspective, but also informed by the work of Klein, Bion and Winnicott. Drawing on the French tradition, Florence Guignard sets out a comprehensive guide to the major drives and concepts in classical psychoanalysis, and how these are understood and employed in contemporary psychoanalytic traini...

The Infantile in Psychoanalytic Practice Today demonstrates the concept of the Infantile, first proposed almost a quarter of a century ago, and the ways in which it has become an indispensable tool in contemporary psychoanalytic clinical practice.As a “concept of the third type”, the Infantile makes the “links-between-the-links” woven into the transference/countertransference functional and effective with patients of all ages, and is related to the double helix between infant neuro...

Cette monographie, réunissant un certain nombre de contributions de référence, déjà publiées dans des numéros de la revue Adolescence aujourd'hui épuisés, rend compte d'une approche psychopathologique et psychanalytique du processus adolescent: le pubertaire provoque un effet de rupture concernant les organisations de l'enfance (névrose infantile culminant à la phase de latence, théorie phallique, système tiers). Cette opposition farouche fait crise entre infantile et nouveauté. Dès lors, ...

From multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume explores the roles mothers play in the producing, purchasing, preparing and serving of food to their own families and to their communities in a variety of contexts. By examining cultural representations of the relationships between feeding and parenting in diverse media and situations, these contributions highlight the tensions in which mothers get entangled. They show mothers' agency — or lack thereof — in negotiating the environmental, mat...

Beyond Mother Goddesses: Mothers, Motherhood and Mothering at the Intersection with Religions introduces key scholars in the study of mothers, maternal figures, and motherhood at the intersection with religion and spirituality, as well as new paths for research.It features interviews with significant authors in religious studies and closely related disciplines and offers a reflexive stance on theory and methodology. The scholars whose interviews are gathered in this volume...

Une tempête frappe sur l'île d'Aix et provoque bien des dégâts... Le commandant Fonte parviendra-t-il à élucider toute cette affaire ?L’île d’Aix. Le commandant Fonte la connaît bien puisqu’il habite sur la presqu’île de Fouras, en face. Mais cette nuit de tempête, il ne s’y rend pas pour son plaisir. Sur l’île d’Aix, alors que le joli mois de mai sort les habitants de leur torpeur hivernale, un homme disparaît brusquement tandis que sa voisine, une vieille dame or...

This edited volume explores the intersection of spirituality with childbirth from 1800 to the present day from a comparative perspective. It illustrates how over this time period in much of the world, traditional practices, home births, and midwives have been overshadowed and undermined by male dominated obstetrics, hospitalization, and ultimately the medicalization of the birthing process itself.