'Someday ...' and 'if only ...' fantasies: Pathological optimism and inordinate nostalgia as related forms of idealization

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 723-753

  Akhtar, Salman ^a,b,c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Philadelphia Psychoanal Institute   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; FANTASY; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MASOCHISM; METAPSYCHOLOGY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MOTIVATION; NARCISSISM; OEDIPUS COMPLEX; REVIEW; SEPARATION ANXIETY;

EID: 0029784819     PISSN: 00030651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000306519604400304     Document Type: Review

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