Polarities of Experience

The Psychology of the Real

by

Richard Rubens

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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

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