Recent developments in psychoanalysis : [electronic resource] a critical evaluation / Morris N. Eagle.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1984.

Bibliography: p. 229-243.

Includes index.

Object relations and Freudian instinct theory -- Object relations and self as an outgrowth of instinctual vicissitudes: the work of Mahler -- Two-factor theory: Modell's attempted integration of object relations and Freudian instinct theory -- Two-factor theory: Kohut's rejection of the id-ego model -- Kohut's psychology of narcissism: a critical overview -- Replacement of instinct theory by object relations theory: the work of Fairbairn -- Reformulation of psychoanalytic theory: the work of G.S. Klein -- Reformulation of the psychoanalytic theory of therapy: the work of Weiss, Sampson, and their colleagues -- Psychoanalytic conception of anxiety -- Instincts, the id-ego model, and self-organization -- Developmental defect versus dynamic conflict -- Clinical theory and metapsychology -- Epistemic status of clinical data -- Psychoanalysis as hermeneutics -- Psychoanalysis as therapy and theory: veridicality and effectiveness -- Individuation and self-differentiation -- Object-seeking and object relations -- Pursuit of superordinate motives -- Id-ego revisited.