Immaterial Facts

Dr. Robert Caper is a graduate of Reed College and UCLA School of Medicine. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Centre of California, and the author of A Mind of One’s Own, as well as numerous papers on psychoanalytic theory and technique.

• Part 1 Freud’s Discovery of Psychic Reality; Chapter 1 Immaterial Facts; Chapter 2 Psychology without a Psyche; Chapter 3 The Discovery of Unconscious Fantasy; Chapter 4 The Structure of Dreams and Neurosis; Chapter 5 Transference and the Crystallization of the Psychoanalytic Method; Chapter 6 Gravitational Confinement; Chapter 7 A Specimen Case: Little Hans; Chapter 8 Identification and the Structure of the Inner World; Chapter 9 Anxiety and the Structure of the Inner World; Chapter 10 Beyond Eros; Part 2 Melanie Klein’s Development of Freud’s Work; Chapter 11 Melanie Klein’s Place in Psychoanalysis; Chapter 12 The Method of Child Psychoanalysis; Chapter 13 The Child’s Construction of Experience; Chapter 14 Instinct, Fantasy, and Early Psychic Processes; Chapter 15 Projective Identification and the Formation of the Inner World; Chapter 16 The Transformation of the Superego: Psychological Integration and Growth; Chapter 17 The Early Stages of the Oedipus Complex; Chapter 18 Envy and Gratitude, Splitting and Integration; Chapter 19 Psychoanalytic Knowledge; Chapter 20 Freud and Klein: A Summary;