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- catalog abstract "From long before the Trojan War to the ethnic cleansings of our own century, people have often used their potential to treat other human beings as things. It is this treatment of another person as a thing rather than as a human being that the eminent psychoanalyst, Dr. Sheldon Bach, sees as a perversion of object relationships and that forms the background of this powerful book. Perversion is a lack of capacity for whole object love, and while this includes the sexual perversions it also includes certain character perversions, character disorders, and psychotic conditions. Dr. Bach's clinical work has led him to conclude that sexual perversions are generally inconsistent with whole object love. Therapeutic experience suggests that the pathways to object love may be strewn with outgrown and discarded sexual perversions. But whether a sexual perversion per se exists or not, the issue of how it happens that one person can degrade another to the status of a thing is important not only for the psychoanalysis of character but for our larger understanding of human nature as well. Perversions are attempts to simplistically resolve or defend against some of the central paradoxes of human existence. How is it possible for us to be born of someone's flesh yet be separate, or to live in one's own experience yet observe oneself from the outside? How are we able to deal with feelings of being both male and female, child and adult, or to negotiate between the worlds of internal and external stimulation? People with perversions have special difficulty in dealing with the ambiguity of human relationships. They have not developed the transitional psychic space that would allow them to contain paradox, making it difficult for them to recognize the reality and legitimacy of multiple points of view. Thus they tend to think in either/or dichotomies, to search for dominant/submissive relationships, and to perceive the world from idiosyncratically subjective or coldly objective perspectives. In this brilliant exposition Dr. Bach shows how some of the paradoxes of self/other, subjectivity/objectivity, male/female, and instinct/object are negotiated in both illness and health.".
- catalog contributor b7583884.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "1. Sadomasochistic Object Relations -- 2. Problems of Narcissistic Love -- 3. The Language of Perversion and the Language of Love -- 4. The Elusive Image -- 5. Rhythmicities, Transitions, and States of Consciousness -- 6. Of Vampires, Ghosts, and Golems -- 7. Being Heard: Attunement and the Growth of Psychic Structure -- 8. On Omnipotence and Disillusionment.".
- catalog description "Dr. Bach's clinical work has led him to conclude that sexual perversions are generally inconsistent with whole object love. Therapeutic experience suggests that the pathways to object love may be strewn with outgrown and discarded sexual perversions. But whether a sexual perversion per se exists or not, the issue of how it happens that one person can degrade another to the status of a thing is important not only for the psychoanalysis of character but for our larger understanding of human nature as well. Perversions are attempts to simplistically resolve or defend against some of the central paradoxes of human existence. How is it possible for us to be born of someone's flesh yet be separate, or to live in one's own experience yet observe oneself from the outside? How are we able to deal with feelings of being both male and female, child and adult, or to negotiate between the worlds of internal and external stimulation?".
- catalog description "From long before the Trojan War to the ethnic cleansings of our own century, people have often used their potential to treat other human beings as things. It is this treatment of another person as a thing rather than as a human being that the eminent psychoanalyst, Dr. Sheldon Bach, sees as a perversion of object relationships and that forms the background of this powerful book. Perversion is a lack of capacity for whole object love, and while this includes the sexual perversions it also includes certain character perversions, character disorders, and psychotic conditions.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-196) and index.".
- catalog description "People with perversions have special difficulty in dealing with the ambiguity of human relationships. They have not developed the transitional psychic space that would allow them to contain paradox, making it difficult for them to recognize the reality and legitimacy of multiple points of view. Thus they tend to think in either/or dichotomies, to search for dominant/submissive relationships, and to perceive the world from idiosyncratically subjective or coldly objective perspectives. In this brilliant exposition Dr. Bach shows how some of the paradoxes of self/other, subjectivity/objectivity, male/female, and instinct/object are negotiated in both illness and health.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 202 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Language of perversion and the language of love.".
- catalog identifier "1568212623".
- catalog isFormatOf "Language of perversion and the language of love.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Northvale, N.J. : J. Aronson,".
- catalog relation "Language of perversion and the language of love.".
- catalog subject "1996 D-677".
- catalog subject "616.89/17 20".
- catalog subject "Interpersonal Relations.".
- catalog subject "Love.".
- catalog subject "Object Attachment.".
- catalog subject "Object relations (Psychoanalysis)".
- catalog subject "Person schemas.".
- catalog subject "RC455.4.O23 B33 1994".
- catalog subject "Self Concept.".
- catalog subject "WM 460.5.O2 B118L 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Sadomasochistic Object Relations -- 2. Problems of Narcissistic Love -- 3. The Language of Perversion and the Language of Love -- 4. The Elusive Image -- 5. Rhythmicities, Transitions, and States of Consciousness -- 6. Of Vampires, Ghosts, and Golems -- 7. Being Heard: Attunement and the Growth of Psychic Structure -- 8. On Omnipotence and Disillusionment.".
- catalog title "The language of perversion and the language of love / Sheldon Bach.".
- catalog type "text".