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| Issue : 2 | Page : 76-83 |
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The development of herbert rosenfeld's views on narcissism
Anuradha Menon
Consultant psychiatrist and medical psychotherapist, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Leeds, UK
Correspondence Address:
Anuradha Menon
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Leeds
UK
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/aip.aip_20_17
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This review tracks the development of Herbert Rosenfeld's (1910–1986) work on the psychoanalytic concept, narcissism. The author conceptualizes the scope of this work in Darwinian terms to emphasize the extraordinarily fertile theoretical and clinical material produced by Rosenfeld, which is linked in the text to several other contemporary Kleinian psychoanalysts. The beginning of his lifelong work is examined as “Origins,” the development itself as “Evolution” and at the end of his life, the shifts in his theoretical stance is looked at as “Metamorphosis.” Clinical material is used to illustrate the core concept of narcissism as a defence against separateness.
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