Children's Phantasies The Shaping of Relationships

Otto Weininger illustrates the manifestations of unconscious phantasy in children - normal, neurotic or psychotic - in various settings such as playgroups, ordinary schools or special schools for disturbed children, the family milieu or play therapy. He uses Melanie Klein's developmental theory and shows the evolutions of phantasies in their content, in the way they are symbolizes, and their functioning in terms of the child's evolution from the paranoid-schizoid position to the depressive position and Oedipus complex.

Foreword , Preface , Introduction , Good, bad and enough , Splitting and idealization , Feeling good, having enough and not fearing the other , Aggression, expression and love , Aggression and regression , Symbol formation, symbolic equation and the development of interests , Reparation and restoration , Anxiety and independence , An uneasy bedtime and two bad mornings , Achieving an independent self , Feeling, thought and creativity , Psychotic moments, thinking and reasoning , Reparation, sublimation, learning and play with art materials , Play psychotherapy , Some basic patterns of play psychotherapy , The snake family

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Otto Weininger