R. Horacio Etchegoyen Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

'In diesem Buch spreche ich über einen Körper, der zugleich sinnlich und in ständigem Austausch begriffen ist zwischen Affekt und Repräsentanz, zwischen Primärvorgang mit seinen verschiedenen Schichten von Unbewusstheit und den Organisationen, die den Sekundärvorgang bestimmen. Ich spreche über einen Körper, der den Konflikten und Leidenschaften, den Tücken des Genusses, den Irrtümern der Identifikation sowie den Täuschungen der Objekte im Dienste der Befriedigung narzisstischer und ödipaler Fantasien auf Gedeih und Verderb ausgeliefert ist. Die Sprache und die tiefen Gefühle, die von den Wesen hervorgerufen werden, die über das menschliche Fleisch zirkulieren, hinterlassen Spuren, Zeichen, trophische Hüllen und Wunden, Rauheit und Zartheit.' (Alcira Mariam Alizade)

The Dead Mother brings together original essays in honour of André Green. Written by distinguished psychoanalysts, the collection develops the theme of his most famous paper of the same title, and describes the value of the dead mother to other areas of clinical psychic reality, borderline phenomena, passions and identification. The concept of the 'dead mother' describes a clinical phenomenon, sometimes difficult to identify, but always present in a substantial number of patients. It describes a process by which the image of a living and loving mother is transformed into a distant figure; a toneless, practically inanimate, dead parent. In reality, the mother remains alive, but she has psychically 'died' for the child. This produces a depression in the child, who carries these feelings within him into adult life, as the experience of the loss of the mother's love is followed by the loss of meaning in life. Nothing makes sense any more for the child, but life seems to continue under the appearance of normality. The Dead Mother is a valuable contribution to literature on psychoanalytic and psychotheraputic approaches to grief, loss and depression.

Un'opera fondamentale di tecnica psicoanalitica concepita proprio con l'intento di "offrire al lettore un panorama completo della materia nella sua problematica attuale, con le linee teoriche che la percorrono dal passato al presente e uno sguardo al possibile futuro". L'attenta comparazione delle più varie formulazioni teoriche si propone qui come strumento indispensabile all'operatore che voglia trovare la propria via personale alla prassi clinica e alla teoria; giacché in questo libro di Etchegoyen più che la norma, più che le nude regole codificate dalla tradizione analitica, interessa il loro fondamento teorico.