Deborah Anna Luepnitz - Schopenhauer’s porcupines : intimacy and its dilemmas

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THE FAMILY INTERPRETED

PORCUPINES

Intimacy and
Its Dilemmas

FIVE STORIES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY

Abortion

Abuse. See Child abuse; Sexual abuse

Adolescence

Adoption

Aesthetic experience

African Americans. See Race

Aggression: definitions of

and Don Juan

Aging, fear of

AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency

Syndrome)

Alcoholism

Ambivalence, . See also Love/hate

relation

Ameliorism

American Psychiatric Association

Anger

Anna O.

Anorexia nervosa, . See also Eating

disorders

Anti-abortion advocates

Anti-anxiety medication

Antigone

Aristophanes

As if personality

Auden, W. H.

Baby and Child Care (Spock)

Back pain. See also

Psychosomatic disorders

Bernard, Jessie

Bible

Birth control

Bisexuality. See also

Sexuality

Borderline personalities

Boundaries

Boys development

Buddhism

Bulimia, . See also Eating

disorders

Byron, Gordon, Lord

Caesar, Sid

Caretaker self

Case of an Obsessional Neurosis, The

(Freud)

Castration

Catholicism

Change, desire for and resistance to

Chernin, Kim

Child abuse See also

Sexual abuse

Chodorow, Nancy

Cobb, Jonathan

Compassion

Confidentiality

Contraception

Countertransference

and Don Juan,

eros in, . See also Transference

Couples therapy

Daniel (biblical figure)

Darwin, Charles

Davies, Erica

Death: and Don Juan,

fear of. See also Grief

Dependency

Depression

as an achievement, in Winnicott

in children

and eating disorders

and the false self

among housewives

and the Don Juan syndrome

medication for

value of

Desire:

in Lacan

Diabetes: four factors of

long-term consequences of

and psychosomatic disorders

superlabile

Type

Dickinson, Emily

Divorce

Domestic violence, . See also Child

abuse, Sexual abuse

Don Giovanni (Mozart)

Don Juan Legend, The (Rank)

Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.)

Drawings, made by adolescents

Dreams

ideas about, exchanging

interpretation of, in couples therapy

nightmares

Oedipal

origin and meaning of

predictive power of

and sexuality

as wish-fulfillment

Drug abuse

Drugs, prescription: anti-anxiety

anti-depressants

Prozac

selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

(SSRIs)

Tofranil

Valium

Eating disorders

anorexia nervosa

bulimia

Ego

El Burlador de Sevilla

Emotions, splitting off of painful

Enlightenment

Enmeshment

Evolution, theory of

False self

Family therapy

dream interpretation in

and psychosomatic disorders

Fantasies: and children

about therapists

sexual

Fear: and countertransference

Freud on

of depletion

of women

Feminism

and bisexuality

and dependency needs

and mother-daughter identification

and the politics of mirroring

and relational psychoanalysis

Fifty-Minute Hour, The (Lindner)

Fliess, Wilhelm

Free association

Freud, Sigmund: on Antigone

The Case of an Obsessional

Neurosis,

countertransference in

fear in

and Fliess

and the formation of symptoms

goal of analysis in

Oedipus complex in

Schopenhauer and, difference between

and subject of porcupines

resistence in

on success, guilt regarding

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

transference in

Wiederholenzwang in

women in

Freud House

Friendship, and therapy, boundary

between

Future of Marriage, The (Bernard)

Gamblers Anonymous (GA)

Gambling

Genocide

Gestalt therapy

Gifts

Gilligan, Carol

God

Good Samaritan

Good-enough mother

Good-enough therapist

Gospel of Luke

Grandparents

Gray, Asa

Grief

and the Don Juan syndrome

and dreams

incomplete

and projective identification, . See also

Death; Loss, feelings of

Group therapy

Guilt

and solitude

about success

Hall, G. Stanley

Handshaking

Hatred: and countertransference

denial of

Herpes

Heterosexuality. See also

Sexuality

Hidden Injuries of Class, The (Cobb and

Sennett)

Hinduism. See also Religion

Holding environment

Holocaust

Homelessness

Homophobia

Homosexuality

See also Sexuality

Household chores, arguments over

Identification: mother-daughter

over

with the patient

projective. See also

Identity, issues of

Identity, issue of, . See also

Identification

Imaginary, realm of

Impingements

Impossibility of Sex, The (Orbach)

Incest, . See also Sexual abuse

Inkblot test

Insomnia

Intimacy

and castration

definitions of

and the Don Juan syndrome

. See also Love

Porcupine dilemma

Judaism, Orthodox

Kincaid, Jamaica

King Nebuchadnezzar

Kissinger, Henry

Klein, Melanie

Kohut, Heinz

Kramer, Peter

Lacan, Jacques

on Antigone

castration in

and Darwin

and importance of three generations

in

mirror phase in

Oedipus myth in

three registers in

Lack, David

Langer, Marie

Leary, Kimberlyn

Leclaire, Serge

Lessing, Doris

Lindner, Robert

Listening to Prozac (Kramer)

Loneliness

Loss, feelings of, . See also Grief

Love: clairvoyant, longing for

definitions of

and finding your ideal mate

gaining wholeness through

and the goals of analysis

and obsession

and the porcupine dilemma

and psychosis

as a thorny affair, . See also

Love/hate relation

Love/hate relation: basic nature of

and the good-enough mother

and the good-enough therapist

. See also Hatred, Love

Manic defense

Marital therapy. See also

Marriage

Marriage: Bernard on

choosing to live without

and Don Juan,

and feelings of aversion and hostility

-is-better prejudice

and repression

stress in, and illness among children

. See also Marital therapy

Medications: anti-anxiety

anti-depressants

Prozac

selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

(SSRIs)

Tofranil

Valium

Meditation

Memoirs of a Survivor (Lessing)

Menstruation

Mirror hungry personalities

Mirror phase

Misogyny

Mortality

Mother-child relation: and the Darwinian

finch,

and eating disorders

and the good-enough mother

in Lacan

and the mirror phase

in Winnicott, . See also

Parent-child relation

Mozart, W. A., . See also Don Giovanni

(Mozart)