Character Analysis

Book excerpt: TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART 1: 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. 4 On the Technique of Character Analysis. 5 Indications and Dangers of Character Analysis. 6 On the Handling of the Transference. PART 2: Theory of Character Formation. 7 The Characterological Resolution of the Infantile Sexual Conflict. 8 The Genital Character and the Neurotic Character. 9 Childhood phobia and Character Formation. 10 Some Circumscribed Character Forms. 11 The Masochistic Character. 12 Some Observations on the Basic Conflict Between Need and Outer World. PART 3: From Psychoanalysis to Orgone Biophysics. 13 Psychic Contact and Vegetative Current. 14 The Expressive Language of the Living. 15 The Schizophrenic Split. 16 The Emotional Plague. Index.