Developments in Psychoanalysis

This book is a survey of the developments in psychoanalytical knowledge resulting from her work. Her main discoveries relate to the very early phases of mental life. She recognized that the world of unconscious feeling and impulse (which we call 'phantasy') is the effective source of all human actions and reactions.

Paula Heimann

Preface , Note , General Introduction , On the Genesis of Psychical Conflict in Earliest Infancy 1 , THE Nature and Function of Phantasy , Certain Functions of Introjection And Projection In Early Infancy , Regression , Some Theoretical Conclusions Regarding the Emotional Life of the Infant 1 , On Observing the Behaviour of Young Infants , On the Theory of Anxiety and Guilt 1 , Notes On Some Schizoid Mechanisms 1 , Notes on the Theory of the Life and Death Instincts