Feeling Intellect

Steven Groarke is professor emeritus at Roehampton University, a member of the British Psychoanalytic Society, author of Managed Lives: Psychoanalysis, Inner Security and the Social Order (Routledge, 2014), and a practicing adult psychoanalyst.

• Introduction; 1. Acts and relations; 2. Dependence; 3. Prospective identification; 4. Memory and reclamation; Bibliography

'This erudite and lucid study of "object relations" is an interesting perspective on the convergences and divergences of the British Independent tradition and the contributions of American relational psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis needs its theoreticians – for it to grow and develop – and readers have much to gain from diving into this text from a leading theoretician in the British Psychoanalytical Society.' Christopher Bollas, psychoanalyst and writer'With so much literature competing for the analyst’s attention, my hope is that enough readers will register the importance of this remarkable book. With an unostentatious mastery, it offers a boldly ambitious and rigorous reconceptualization of the fundamentals of metapsychology from an Independent psychoanalytic perspective. Its contribution to such basic concepts as the drive, the object, time and memory is wholly original and brilliantly stimulating. This is a book to be read and debated for decades to come.' Josh Cohen, Psychoanalyst and Fellow of British Psychoanalytical Society and Professor of Literary Theory, Goldsmiths University of London