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| Acknowledgements | ix |
| French Editor's Note | x |
| Presentation of the 3rd Edition | xi |
| Preface to the 1st Edition | xv |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Part I First Postulate | 19 |
| Chapter 1 Introjection and its Relations to the Construction of the Psychical Apparatus | 21 |
| Chapter 2 The First Containing External Object: The Momentary Object | 40 |
| Part II Second Postulate | 89 |
| Chapter 3 The Optimal Containing Object | 91 |
| Chapter 4 Psychic Space | 114 |
| Part III Third Postulate | 131 |
| Chapter 5 On Adhesive Identification: Genesis of the Psychic Skin | 133 |
| Chapter 6 On Symbiosis: A Common Skin | 159 |
| Chapter 7 On the Skin-Ego: A Complete Psychic Envelope | 174 |
| Chapter 8 Conclusion: Psychic Birth and Psychopathological Deviations | 200 |
| Part IV Fourth Postulate | 217 |
| Chapter 9 Splitting and Idealization: The Life Drives/Death Drives Duality | 219 |
| Chapter 10 The Genesis and Development of Thought-Activity | 245 |
| Part V Fifth Postulate | 279 |
| Chapter 11 Projective Identification: Definition and Description | 281 |
| Chapter 12 Projective Identification: Motives, Consequences, Phenomenology | 296 |
| Part VI Sixth Postulate | 307 |
| Chapter 13 The Inadequacies of the Containing Object | 309 |
| Chapter 14 Phantasied Attacks on the Object | 350 |
| Chapter 15 “Second Skin” Formation | 356 |
| Epilogue | 367 |
| Bibliography | 371 |
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