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| Preface R. Horacio Etchegoyen | xii |
| Editorial Introduction Leopoldo Bleger & John Churcher | xvii |
| The Value of This Book for Psychoanalysts Today | xvii |
| The Context in Which the Book Was Written: Argentinian Psychoanalysis in the 1950s and 1960s | xviii |
| Structure and Composition of the Book | xix |
| Synopsis | xx |
| The Relation between This Book and the Rest of José Bleger's Work | xxxii |
| Commentary on José Bleger's Work in the Psychoanalytic Movement | xxxix |
| About the Present Translation | xl |
| Editorial Conventions | xlv |
| Acknowledgements | xlvi |
| Symbiosis and Ambiguity José Bleger | |
| Prologue | 3 |
| Part One: On Symbiosis | |
| 1 Study of Dependence-Independence in Relation to the Process of Projection-Introjection | 9 |
| Objective | 9 |
| Autism and Symbiosis in the Transference | 10 |
| Background | 10 |
| Transference Narcissism | 11 |
| Symbiosis and Psychopathic Acting | 13 |
| The Patient's History | 14 |
| Dependence-Independence | 15 |
| Summary | 20 |
| Comments on the Initiation of the Treatment | 21 |
| The Course of the Treatment | 22 |
| Fragmentation, Dissociation and Control in Space | 24 |
| Re-Introjection and the Body as a ‘Buffer’ | 24 |
| Some Characteristics of the Emergence of Insight | 27 |
| Summary and Conclusions | 30 |
| 2 Symbiosis in Warrior's Rest | 32 |
| Symbiosis and the Nature of the Object Relation | 33 |
| The Material | 38 |
| Conditioning of the Symbiotic Link | 39 |
| An Encounter and the Return of the Repressed | 41 |
| The Process of Accepting the Depositary | 41 |
| Recapitulation | 43 |
| The Configuration or Establishment of the Symbiotic Link | 44 |
| Derision and Pity | 48 |
| Metamorphosis | 50 |
| Dangers of the Symbiotic Relation | 52 |
| Time | 53 |
| Sexuality | 54 |
| Equilibrium in the Symbiotic Link | 55 |
| Vicissitudes of the Symbiotic Link | 59 |
| Agglutination and Dispersion | 61 |
| Fragmentation of the Agglutinated Object Through Diversification of Object Relations | 62 |
| Separation | 65 |
| Summary of the Subsequent Course of the Symbiosis | 67 |
| Epilogue | 70 |
| Summary and Conclusions | 71 |
| 3 Modalities of Object Relations | 72 |
| 4 Study of the Psychotic Part of the Personality | 78 |