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Betrayal : Developmental, Literary, and Clinical Realms.
Betrayal underlies all psychic trauma, whether sexual abuse or profound neglect, violence or treachery, extramarital affair or embezzlement. When we betray others, we violate their confidence in us. When others betray us, they pierce the veil of our innocent reliance. Betraying and feeling betrayed are ubiquitous to the scenarios of trauma and yet surprisingly neglected as a topic of specific attention by psychoanalysis. This book fills this gap. The first part deals with developmental aspects and notes that while the experience of betrayal might be ubiquitous in childhood, its lack of recognit.
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- ISBN: 9781782411321
- ISBN: 1782411321
- ISBN: 9781306068581
- ISBN: 1306068584
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Publisher: London : Karnac Books, 2013.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I DEVELOPMENTAL REALM; CHAPTER ONE Betrayal in childhood; CHAPTER TWO A seduced child is a betrayed child; CHAPTER THREE Betrayal, shifting loyalties, identity, and love in adolescence; CHAPTER FOUR When the body betrays; PART II LITERARY REALM; CHAPTER FIVE The theme of betrayal in the works of "William Shakespeare"; CHAPTER SIX Betrayal as the creative force behind Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"; PART III CLINICAL REALM; CHAPTER SEVEN The compulsion to betray and the need to be betrayed. CHAPTER EIGHT Sexual abuse of children as the betrayal of a sacred trustCHAPTER NINE The extramarital affair and the betrayal of a spouse; CHAPTER TEN The injured bystander in analytic betrayal; REFERENCES; INDEX. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Betrayal. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |
