...Hanna Segal; Jeffrey M. Perl Segal traces the development and use of the psychoanalytic concept of ambivalence from Eugen Bleuler to Freud to Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion. Segal’s own argument, ultimately, is that ambivalence is an achievement rather than a problem, though only when...

... remain unknown. The pure iteration of such anxieties is what Eugen Bleuler called “phobophobia,” sheer anxiety regarding the indeterminability of coming anxiety. The bare horizon is the primal opponent of human consciousness and its confident familiarity with the world; the bare horizon corresponds also...