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    First Thoughts: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Beginnings

    Author: Jayne Hankinson

    £27.89 – £39.99

    A stunning debut of fresh and original thinking on the individual’s search for meaning.

    Full of penetrating insight into the quest for ‘truth’ and the meaning of life, Jayne Hankinson applies psychoanalytic theory to enable a deeper understanding of the creation myths that exist for each and every one of us. First Thoughts builds on the traditions established by the visionary W. R. Bion to present a philosophical and spiritual odyssey to inspire and enjoy.

    Due to be published in October 2021.

    Author

    Jayne Hankinson

    ISBN

    9781912691265

    Format

    Paperback, e-Book, Print & e-Book

    Page Extent

    352

    Publication Date

    October 2021

    Subject Areas

    Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Theory

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    ‘…any Psychoanalyst must find his own way and come upon well-known and well-established theories through experiences of his own realisations.’ So says W. R. Bion in his Commentary in Second Thoughts. In First Thoughts, Jayne Hankinson does just this. She presents a personal account of her own ‘realisations’ and discoveries during an attempt to give thought to ‘beginnings’. She explores the meaning and relevance of creation myths, leading to a deep realisation of how they unconsciously represent and shape much of our lives, even today. This exploration meanders through the Garden of Eden, leaving with a realisation that there is an ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’ aspect in dynamic tension within each of our minds.

    This serpentine journey becomes a ‘hermeneutic loop’ in which dissatisfaction with parts of psychoanalytic theory leads to an engagement in the phenomena of beginnings and a consequent reappraisal and reinterpretation, via a closer look at Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, and Wilfred Bion to formulate an understanding of what their ‘first thoughts’ may be. The book ends with the author’s own creation myth reshaped and a deeper awareness of how important ‘beginnings’ are.

    About the author

    About the author

    Jayne Hankinson is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association, and has been working in the field of psychoanalysis for almost ten years. Prior to her training, she was a psychodynamic counsellor, and has been engaged in either training or post-qualification counselling and psychoanalysis for about twenty years.

    During this time she has worked in a variety of counselling agencies, and has also spent two years at an NHS psychotherapy and psychiatric unit. Presently, she has a private psychoanalytic practice, and works as a supervisor, near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.

    Before she entered into the counselling and psychoanalytic world, she was a secondary school science teacher.

    Contents

    Contents

    A tribute to Chris Mawson

    Part I
    Dissatisfaction

    1. My beginning
    2. Creation myths
    3. Presence and absence
    4. The dispute
    5. The chaos or the word
    6. The binding of Hans
    7. Circularity and straight lines
    8 Initial thoughts

    Part II
    Engaging in the phenomenon

    9. In the beginning
    10. The garden
    11. Conception stories
    12. Vicissitudes of penetration
    13. Magical structures
    14. Wholeness
    15. Tentative thoughts

    Part III
    Reappraisal

    16. Freud’s first thoughts
    17. Klein’s first thoughts
    18. Winnicott’s first thoughts
    19. Bion’s first thoughts
    20. Gathered thoughts

    Part IV
    Reformulation

    21. Modus vivendi
    22. An elemental structure
    23. Narcissism
    24. Threads
    25. To myth or not to myth
    26. Final thoughts

    References
    Acknowledgements
    About the author

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