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Psychoanalysis and Development

Representations and Narratives
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The concepts of representation and narratives have played a key role in the development of psychoanalysis, clinical research and theoretical speculation. Found in the early writings of Freud, the term "representation" identifies the process of internalisation: the construction of an internal mental world, separate from external reality, which allows us to give meaning to our own experiences. The concept of "narration" is also found in Freud's early works; this is the idea that personal experience might assume the character of a narrative construction. The latter concept provided the impetus for the war between Freudian metapsychology and American psychoanalysts in the 1970s. Subjects discussed in this work include: the narrative construction of "reality"; the unconscious and the representational world; maternal representations during pregnancy and early infant-mother interactions; and memory and narration in clinical psychoanalysis. It explores the close and necessary relationship between the two theories, illustrating how they have developed the language of therapy and affected the practice of both psychoanalysis and developmental psychology.
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