ROY SCHAFER: A BEGINNING |
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| Authors: | HENRY P SCHWARTZ |
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| Institution: | Faculty at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York, and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the New York University Langone Medical Center. |
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| Abstract: | The author provides a biographical overview of Schafer's life, culled from his published work and focused primarily on his professional development. This biography is used to demonstrate some of Schafer's central theoretical insights on narrativity and language, and reveals the consistency of his thinking over his long career. A brief discussion of his writing on King Lear provides a bridge between theoretical and biographical material. |
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| Keywords: | Roy Schafer history of analysis philosophy ego psychology King Lear creation of experience creation of facts language narration forgiveness love |
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