Identification in Psychoanalysis

Introduction; Foreword: symptoms, transferences, identifications; Exergue; I. Identification and symptom formation 1. Identification: the first references 2. Hysterical identification A. The dream of the âwitty butcherâs wifeâ B. Dream and hysteria: the Dora case 3. Identification in dream-work 4. Identification and the comic A. From dream to witticism B. The species of the comic or the play of comparisons C. Comical illusion; II. Identification and narcissism 1. Identification, orality and object-choice A. A geneaology of identification B. The work of puberty C. The two methods of choosing a sexual object 2. âTotemicâ identification A. Identification and projection: magic as a model B. Totemism and the father complex C. Identification theory and practice 3. Narcissistic identification A. The fate of the lost object: mourning or melancholia B. Supplemental note to Mourning and Melancholia: Karl Abraham C. Identification and metapsychology; III. The Oedipus complex and the "institutions" of the ego 1. Identification and repetition compulsion A. Memory and mastery: the double game of Fort-Da 2. Love and identification: the function of the ideal A. The singular and the plural B. Identifications C. The ego and the ego ideal 3. Genesis and structure of formations of the ego: ego and ego ideal - the superego A. Oedipal identifications B. Remarks on the ideal agency C. The work of the ego, between life instinct and death instinct; In conclusion 1. Concluding an itinerary A. Freud I: dream, hysteria and jokes B. Freud II: narcissism C. Freud III: the death instinct and the second topographical model 2. Elements of a metapsychology of identification A. Identification models B. Economy of identification C. Dynamics of identification