Character Analysis
Third, Enlarged Edition

Reich, Wilhelm

Publisher: Pocket Books, New York, USA
Year First Published: {14962 Character Analysis CHARACTER ANALYSIS Third, Enlarged Edition Reich, Wilhelm Pocket Books New York USA Reich's psychoanalytic investigations of the human character. 1933 1976 604pp BC14962-CharacterAnalysis.jpg B Book 671-80259-3 - Table of Contents Preface to the Third Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Part One: Technique 1. Some Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique 2. The Economic Viewpoint in the Theory of Analytic Therapy 3. On the Technique of Interpretation and of Resistance Analysis 1. Some typical errors in the technique of interpretation and other consequences 2. Systematic interpretation and resistance analysis 3. Consistency in resistance analysis 4. On the Technique of Character Analysis 1. Introduction 2. Character armoring and character resistance a) The inability to follow the basic rule b) Where do the character resistances come from? c) On the technique of analyzing the character resistance d) The technique of dealing with individual situations as derived from the structure of the character resistance e) The breaking down of the narcissistic defense apparatus f) On the optimal conditions for the analytic reduction to the infantile situation from the contemporary situation g) Character analysis in the case of abundantly flowing material 3. A case of passive-feminine character a) Anamnesis b) The development and analysis of the character resistance c) Linking the analysis of the contemporary material to the infantile 4. Summary 5. Indications and Dangers of Character Analysis 6. On the Handling of the Transference 1. The distillation of the genital-object libido 2. Secondary narcissism, negative transference, and insight into illness 3. On the handling of the abstinence rule 4. On the question of the "dissolution" of the positive transference 5. A few remarks about counter-transference Part Two: Theory of Character Formation 7. The Characterological Resolution of the Infantile Sexual Conflict 1. Content and form of psychic reactions 2. The function of character formation 3. Conditions of character differentiation 8. The Genital Character and the Neurotic Character (The Sex-Economic Function of the Character Armor) 1. Character and sexual stasis 2. The libido-economic difference between the genital character and the neurotic character a) Structure of the id b) Structure of the superego c) Structure of the ego 3. Sublimation, reaction formation, and neurotic reaction basis 9. Childhood Phobia and Character Formation 1. An "aristocratic" character 2. Overcoming of childhood phobia by the formation of character attitudes 10. Some Circumscribed Character Forms 1. The hysterical character 2. The compulsive character 3. The phallic-narcissistic character 11. The Masochistic Character 1. Summary of views 2. The armoring of the masochistic character 3. Inhibited exhibitionism and the passion for self-deprecation 4. Unpleasurable perception of the increase of sexual excitation: the specific basis of the masochistic character 5. Observations on the therapy of masochism 12. Some Observations on the Basic Conflict Between Need and Outer World Part Three: From Psychoanalysis to Orgone Biophysics 13. Psychic Contact and Vegetative Current Preface 1. More about the conflict between instinct and outer world 2. Some technical presuppositions 3. The change of function of the impulse 4. The intellect as defense function 5. The interlacing of the instinctual defenses 6. Contactlessness 7. Substitute Contact 8. The psychic representation of the organic a) The idea of "bursting" b) On the idea of death 9. Pleasure, anxiety, anger, and muscular armor 10. The two great leaps in evolution 14. The Expressive Language of the Living 1. The function of emotion in orgone therapy 2. Plasmatic expressive movement and emotional expression 3. The segmental arrangement of the armor 4. The emotional expression of the orgasm reflex and sexual superimposition 15. The Schizophrenic Split 1. The "devil" in the schizophrenic process 2. The "forces" 3. The remote schizophrenic expression in the eyes 4. The breakthrough of the depersonalization and first understanding of the schizophrenic split 5. The interdependence of consciousness and self-perception 6. The rational function of the "devilish evil" 7. The Anorgonotic regions in the catatonic state 8. The function of self-damage in schizophrenia 9. Crisis and recovery 16. The Emotional Plague Index CX7347 1 false true false CX7347.htm [0xc001b32690 0xc001b326c0 0xc0020804e0 0xc002540fc0 0xc0025410e0 0xc002541710 0xc00255c390 0xc000552240 0xc0005527e0 0xc0003e7140 0xc00024ef00 0xc001c04720 0xc001f75290 0xc001f75320 0xc001f75470 0xc0002dbd40 0xc001015080 0xc0010156b0 0xc001015c20 0xc001022630 0xc001022720 0xc0010227e0 0xc001022930 0xc001023770 0xc001030120 0xc0010307e0 0xc00258aed0 0xc0025a24b0 0xc0025a2a80 0xc0025ccf90] Cx}
Year Published: 1976
Pages: 604pp ISBN: 671-80259-3
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Reich's psychoanalytic investigations of the human character.

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Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition

Part One: Technique

1. Some Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique

2. The Economic Viewpoint in the Theory of Analytic Therapy

3. On the Technique of Interpretation and of Resistance Analysis
1. Some typical errors in the technique of interpretation and other consequences
2. Systematic interpretation and resistance analysis
3. Consistency in resistance analysis

4. On the Technique of Character Analysis
1. Introduction
2. Character armoring and character resistance
a) The inability to follow the basic rule
b) Where do the character resistances come from?
c) On the technique of analyzing the character resistance
d) The technique of dealing with individual situations as derived from the structure of the character resistance
e) The breaking down of the narcissistic defense apparatus
f) On the optimal conditions for the analytic reduction to the infantile situation from the contemporary situation
g) Character analysis in the case of abundantly flowing material
3. A case of passive-feminine character
a) Anamnesis
b) The development and analysis of the character resistance
c) Linking the analysis of the contemporary material to the infantile
4. Summary

5. Indications and Dangers of Character Analysis

6. On the Handling of the Transference
1. The distillation of the genital-object libido
2. Secondary narcissism, negative transference, and insight into illness
3. On the handling of the abstinence rule
4. On the question of the "dissolution" of the positive transference
5. A few remarks about counter-transference

Part Two: Theory of Character Formation

7. The Characterological Resolution of the Infantile Sexual Conflict
1. Content and form of psychic reactions
2. The function of character formation
3. Conditions of character differentiation

8. The Genital Character and the Neurotic Character (The Sex-Economic Function of the Character Armor)
1. Character and sexual stasis
2. The libido-economic difference between the genital character and the neurotic character
a) Structure of the id
b) Structure of the superego
c) Structure of the ego
3. Sublimation, reaction formation, and neurotic reaction basis

9. Childhood Phobia and Character Formation
1. An "aristocratic" character
2. Overcoming of childhood phobia by the formation of character attitudes

10. Some Circumscribed Character Forms
1. The hysterical character
2. The compulsive character
3. The phallic-narcissistic character

11. The Masochistic Character
1. Summary of views
2. The armoring of the masochistic character
3. Inhibited exhibitionism and the passion for self-deprecation
4. Unpleasurable perception of the increase of sexual excitation: the specific basis of the masochistic character
5. Observations on the therapy of masochism

12. Some Observations on the Basic Conflict Between Need and Outer World

Part Three: From Psychoanalysis to Orgone Biophysics

13. Psychic Contact and Vegetative Current
Preface
1. More about the conflict between instinct and outer world
2. Some technical presuppositions
3. The change of function of the impulse
4. The intellect as defense function
5. The interlacing of the instinctual defenses
6. Contactlessness
7. Substitute Contact
8. The psychic representation of the organic
a) The idea of "bursting"
b) On the idea of death
9. Pleasure, anxiety, anger, and muscular armor
10. The two great leaps in evolution

14. The Expressive Language of the Living
1. The function of emotion in orgone therapy
2. Plasmatic expressive movement and emotional expression
3. The segmental arrangement of the armor
4. The emotional expression of the orgasm reflex and sexual superimposition

15. The Schizophrenic Split
1. The "devil" in the schizophrenic process
2. The "forces"
3. The remote schizophrenic expression in the eyes
4. The breakthrough of the depersonalization and first understanding of the schizophrenic split
5. The interdependence of consciousness and self-perception
6. The rational function of the "devilish evil"
7. The Anorgonotic regions in the catatonic state
8. The function of self-damage in schizophrenia
9. Crisis and recovery

16. The Emotional Plague

Index

Character AnalysisThird, Enlarged Edition

Subject Headings

Character Analysis
Third, Enlarged Edition