Jacobson, Edith — Self and the Object World

New York, International Universities Press, Inc, 1964. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Green cloth boards in green/white jacket. xiii, 250 pages. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Monograph series, no. 2 Narcissism, masochism, and the concepts of self and self representations -- Review of recent literature on the problem of identity -- The fusions between self and object images and the earliest types of identifications -- The child's discovery of his identity and his advance to object relations and selective identifications -- The child's finding of his sexual identity and the building up of his ego -- The forestages of superego development -- The idealization of the love object, ego-ideal formation, and the development of superego identifications -- The organization and integration of different superego components into a consolidated functional system -- Developmental trends in the latency child and the relations of guilt to shame and "inferiority" conflicts -- Puberty changes and their influence on the experience of identity and the relations to the other sex -- The instinctual and emotional conflicts of the adolescent and the remodeling and growth of his psychic structures -- The influence of normal and unsuccessful adolescent conflict solution on postadolescent identity formation and the further development of personality. VG-/G+. Jacket has some rubbing, wear including light fraying and tearing around head/tail of spine and edges. Previous owners name penned in front and some light underling/notation to text block.