The Narration of Desire: Erotic Transferences and Countertransferences (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780881632989)

In this richly woven study of preoedipal erotic experience, Harriet Kimble Wrye and Judith Welles focus on patients for whom early mothering did not sustain the flowering and subsequent transformation of early erotic desire. Such patients remain under the sway of a primitive eroticism that is often sadistic and invariably perverse. Successful analytic work requires accepting and containing the patient's primitive erotic needs; reconstructing the mother-infant narratives that sustain these needs; and mobilizing the patient's transformative desire to grow out of maternal eroticism to an adult love of self and others.

Author: Harriet K. Wrye, Judith K. Welles
ISBN-10: 0881632988
ISBN-13: 9780881632989
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1998
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d