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Self and Other
PSYCHOANALYTIC CROSSCURRENTS
General Editor: Leo Goldberger
THE DEATH OF DESIRE: A STUDY IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
by M. Guy Thompson
THE TALKING CURE: LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Jeffrey Berman
NARCISSISM AND THE TEXT: STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELF
by Lynne Layton and Barbara Ann Schapiro, Editors
THE LANGUAGE OF PSYCHOSIS
by Bent Rosenbaum and Harly Sonne
SEXUALITY AND MIND: THE ROLE OF THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER IN THE PSYCHE
by Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel
ART AND LIFE: ASPECTS OF MICHELANGELO
by Nathan Leites
PATHOLOGIES OF THE MODERN SELF: POSTMODERN STUDIES ON NARCISSISM, SCHIZOPHRENIA, AND DEPRESSION
by David Michael Levin, Editor
FREUD’S THEORY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Ole Andkjaer Olsen and Simo Koppe
THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THE THEORY OF PSYCHONEUROSES
by Zvi Giora
CHANGING MIND-SETS: THE POTENTIAL UNCONSCIOUS
by Maria Carmen Gear, Ernesto César Liendo, and Lila Lee Scott
LANGUAGE AND THE DISTORTION OF MEANING
by Patrick de Gramont
THE NEUROTIC FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL ORDER
by J. C. Smith
SELF AND OTHER: OBJECT RELATIONS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERATURE
by Robert Rogers
SELF AND OTHER
Object Relations in
Psychoanalysis and Literature
Robert Rogers
Copyright © 1991 by New York University
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rogers, Robert, 1928–
Self and other : object relations in psychoanalysis and literature
/Robert Rogers.
p. cm.—(Psychoanalytic crosscurrents)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8147-7418-0
1. Object relations (Psychoanalysis) 2. Object relations
(Psychoanalysis) in literature. I. Title. II. Series.
BF175.5.024R64 1991
155.9′2–dc20 91-25953
CIP
New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper,
and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability.
For my mother and father: in memoriam
This is most strange,
That she whom even but now was your best object,
The argument of your praise, balm of your age,
The best, the dearest, should in this trice of time
Commit a thing so monstrous to dismande
So many folds of favor.
—France to Lear, in King Lear
Being a self with others entails a constant dialectic
between attachment and self-definition, between
connection and differentiation, a continual negotiation
between one’s wishes and will and the wishes and will
of others, between one’s own subjective reality and
a consensual reality of others with whom one lives.
—Stephen Mitchell, Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis
CONTENTS
PART I. Modeling Interpersonal Relations
1. Drive versus Person: Two Orientations
2. Toward a Unified Theory of Object Relations
PART II. Stories of Real Persons
4. Gabrielle, Anna, Renee, Joey: Four Case Histories
PART III. The Imagined Self and Other
5. The Stepmother World of Moby Dick
7. The Sequestered Self of Emily Dickinson
8. Self and Other in Shakespearean Tragedy
FOREWORD
The Psychoanalytic Crosscurrents series presents selected books and monographs that reveal the growing intellectual ferment within and across the boundaries of psychoanalysis.
Freud’s