Masochism: Current Psychoanalytic Perspectives

by Robert A. Glick and Donald I. Meyers

Book Overview

Just as psychoanalytic interest in masochism dates from the earliest days of psychoanalysis, the various approaches to its understanding have reflected the developmental vicissitudes of psychoanalytic theory as it moved from its early focus on instinct to considerations of psychic structure and oedipall dynamics, object relations, separation-individuation, self-organization, and self-esteem regulation, and as it progressed into more systematic investigation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881630462
• ISBN13: 9780881630466
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.