Book
The Matrix of the Mind: Object Relations and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue
What it shows
- 1985
Thomas H. Ogden developed Potential space
Ogden recast Winnicott's potential space as a dialectical tension between reality and fantasy, and between me and not-me, in which a symbolising, interpreting subject can come into being. He traced its collapse in various forms of psychopathology.
- 1986
Thomas H. Ogden reworked Paranoid-schizoid position
Ogden read Klein's positions as modes of generating experience rather than developmental phases. In the paranoid-schizoid mode the self is experienced as an object to which things happen. He later set it in dialectical tension with the depressive and autistic-contiguous modes.
- 1986
Thomas H. Ogden reworked Depressive position
For Ogden the depressive position marks the birth of a historical subject: a self that experiences itself as the author of its thoughts and feelings and can live in time with a history. He held that it exists in continuous dialectical tension with the more primitive modes, never replacing them.
Donald Winnicott influenced Thomas H. Ogden
Melanie Klein influenced Thomas H. Ogden