The Drama of the Gifted Child (The Search for the True Self)

Index
abandonment, 10-14, 79
Abraham, Karl, on depression, 62
achievement, 5, 6, 38
adaptation, 5-6, 9-10, 59-61, 86
aggression, 33, 45, 62
ambivalence, 24, 34, 104
analysand, 5-6, 23-24, 54; see
also countertransference; transference;
analysis; analyst
analysis, 3-4, 17-21, 55-58, 102-8,
no, 112; autonomy and, 23;
breakthrough in, 54, 111; and depression,
50-55; discovery and
acceptance in, 3-4, experiencing
in, 77, 112; and memories, 100;
and mirroring, 49; of mother, 36-
37; pain in, 4, 11, 15, 55; and obsessional
neurosis, 87-91; and repression,
7, 81; see also mourning;
transference; true self, discovery
of
analyst, 17, 22, 55-57, 81, 90; narcissism
in, 9, 22-26; patient relation
with, 87-89, 90-91, 103-4;
analysis of, 22-23; see also analysis;
countertransference; manipulation
anger, 9, 77
anxiety, 6, 9, 82
autonomy, 7, 23, 33
Balzac, Honoré de: Le Lys dans la
vallée, 37-38
bond permanence, 13-14
cathexis, 31, 32, 38, 55, 104
Chestnut Lodge field stude, 39-40
child 4-5, 69-70, 75; and introjection,
84; and cathexis, 38; and seduction,
74-76; suppression of
feelings of, 53-54, 101; see also
narcissism, healthy
compulsion to repeat, 25, 80-81, 90,
99-100; and contempt, 69; examples
of, 79, 82-83; and grandiosity,
40; negative side of, 78, 87;
and partner choice, 79, 82; and
perversion, 85-87; positive side
of, 78-79; in analysis, 18
contempt, 64-75, 84-91, 102-8
countertransference, 77-78, 88
Daudet, Alphonse: Lettres de mon
moulin, 28-29
defense mechanisms, 12, 41, 54, 70-
72; contempt as, 67, 102-8;
theory and, 91
denial, 10, 45-46, 63, 101, 104; as
defense mechanism, 12, 70; and
depression, 21, 51; and guilt, 85;
identification of, 17; of true self,
21, 59-60
depravity, 93-99
depression, 42-45, 50-55, 57, 62-63;
and denial, 21; etiology of, 39-40;
the gifted and, 6, 39; and grandiosity,
6, 38, 42, 44-45, 56, 104;
and loss of self, 30, 45, 46; and
society, 59-60; and true self, 59
discrimination, 76, 108-10
drive theory, ix
ego, see self; true self; false self
egoism, vii-viii
emotional needs, 16, 32, 35, 40
envy, 9, 40, 103
false self, ix, 14, 17, 49-50; in children,
28; in depression and grandiosity,
43, 45; and analysis, 57,
58
fear, 67, 79
Freud, Sigmund, vii, 4, 10, 62, 74,
100; Mourning and Melancholy,
62; Recollection, Repetition and
Working Through, 10
gifted child, 3-9; 97
grandiosity, 38-40, 41-42, 45, 103-4;
as defense mechanism, 85; and
depression, 6, 38, 42, 44-45, 56,
104; fantasies of, 16-17; examples
of, 105n
gratification, 7, 8, 40
guilt, 6, 45, 85
Habermas, Jurgen, 10, 12
Hesse, Hermann, 84-85, 93-99; De-
117