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Sylvia Plath (1977)
Letters Home
M. Klein (1975)
Love, Guilt, and Reparation & Other Works, 1921-1945
Sylvia Plath (1977)
Bell Jar
D. Winnicott (1971)
Playing and Reality
Anais Nin (1966)
Diaries
Anais Nin (1961)
Winter of Artifice
S. Bach (1977)
Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process
Edward Butscher (1976)
Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness
Ronald Fair, Melanie Klein's (1953)
Psychoanalytic Studies of the PersonalityMental Health, 12
Heinz Kohut (1971)
Analysis of the Self
James F. Masterson (1981)
Narcissistic and Borderline Disorders
Sylvia Plath (1968)
The Colossus
Sylvia Plath (1961)
Ariel
M. Klein (1975)
Envy And Gratitude & Other Works, 1946-1963
S. Plath, T. Hughes, F. McCullough (1982)
The Journals of Sylvia Plath
O. Kernberg (1975)
Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism
H. Segal (1973)
Introduction To The Work Of Melanie Klein
J. Mcclatchy (1979)
Anne Sexton : the artist and her criticsWorld Literature Today, 53
D. Winnicott (1965)
The maturational processes and the facilitating environment
Melanie Klein (1975)
Love, Guilt and Reparation, 1921–1945
Susan Kavaler You stand at the blackboard, daddy, In the picture I have of you. A cleft in your chin instead of your foot But no less a devil for that, no not Any less the black man who Bit my pretty red heart in two Not God but a swastika So black no sky could squeak through I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to die And get back back back to you. I thought even the bones would do... "Daddy," from Ariel, Poems by Sylvia Plath, p. 49. Order of paragraphs rearranged. There is a crucial double motive that stands out in Sylvia Plath's compul- sion to create, as it stands out in her compulsion to suicide, and to internally destroy. This double motive is inextricably tied to her love and hate for her father, and to her relationship to him as a decisively split internal object. It's the reenactment of this internal object relationship that drives Plath to the intensity of her creativity, but the object splitting involved keeps the Self split as well, forestalling forever the reparation of the self that the creative process can sometimes provide. As Butscher writes in
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals
Published: Dec 1, 1986
Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
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