Polarities of
Experience The Psychology of the Real by Richard Rubens Contents Introduction / 1 PART ONE: Experience 1 “The Terrible Ambiguity of Immediate
Experience” / 13 2 Reality v. Idealization and Denigration THE PRIMARY
POLARITY / 18 3 The Reality of Loss v. Depression THE SECOND POLARITY / 27 PART
TWO: Expression 4 Self-Expression / 47 5 Assertion v. Aggression THE THIRD POLARITY / 66 PART
THREE: Intimacy 6 Love and Intimacy / 87 7 The Polarities of Intimacy / 105
8 Intimacy v. Power: Power v. Power Over THE FOURTH POLARITY / 118 9 Intimacy v. Abuse: Power v. Abuse THE FIFTH
POLARITY / 143 10 Intimacy v. Dependence: Mature Dependence v. Infantile
Dependence THE SIXTH
POLARITY / 170 11 Intimacy v. Deception: Truth v. Deception THE SEVENTH POLARITY / 207 PART
FOUR: Socio-Political
Considerations 12 Freedom v. Authoritarianism THE EIGHTH POLARITY / 255 PART FIVE: The Psychoanalytic Polarities 13 Open-Systems v. Closed-Systems THE NINTH
POLARITY / 279 14 Separation v. Lack of Differentiation: Health v. Narcissism . . . and
Worse THE TENTH
POLARITY / 306 15 Obsessive v. Hysterical: The Bifurcation of the Tenth Polarity
/ 330 Epilogue “what’s with you and all these
‘polarities’?” / 359 References |
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