Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis

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Clinical psychoanalysis serves as our best laboratory for exploring the riddle of what it is to be a person, and how a person is at once singularly unique even as all the time a piece of the interpersonal fabric of humanity. In Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis, Warren Poland casts a freshly erudite eye on this paradox, resisting individual or intersubjective bias and avoiding the parochial allegiances common in our age of pluralism.

Poland combines vivid reports from clinical analyses, literary readings, and his own life – all unfolding original observations on a person as both a part of and apart from human commonality. His consideration of how one person’s witnessing facilitates every other’s self-definition, a concept extended here in his study of outsiderness as a part of human nature, has been marked a keynote contribution. Clinical illustrations of moments that matter but are regularly omitted from public presentation are set alongside examples of reading powerful fiction to show how analyst and writer both incite fresh openness in a person’s mind. Poland goes farther, exposing the personal power of union and separateness in its keenest form, facing the ultimate separation of one’s own actual death.

Only with separateness can true intimacy grow, and only within the fabric of others can true individuality exist. This evocative book, ranging from the lightness of whimsy to the dread of dying, allows each and every reader a taste of and to be told from Poland’s thinking. Psychoanalyst or patient, creator or reader, each and every one living one’s own life – all can find new understandings in this work.

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