The Basic Fault

Foreword by Paul H. Ornstein
Preface to the 1979 Reprint by Enid Balint
Preface

Part I The three areas of the mind
1. The theraputic processes and their localization
2. Interpretation and working-through
3. The two levels of analytic work
4. The area of the basic fault
5. The area of creation
6. Summary

Part II Primary narcissism and primary love
7. Freud's three theories
8. Inherent contradictions
9. Clinical facts about narcissism
10. Schizophrenia, addiction, and other narcissistic conditions
11. Ante-natal and early post-natal states
12. Primary love
13. Adult love

Part III The gulf and the analyst's responses to it
14. Regression and the child in the patient
15. The problem of language in upbringing and in psychoanalytical treatment
16. The classical technique and its limitations
17. The hazards inherent in consistent interpretation
18. The hazards inherent in managing the regression

Part IV The benign and the malignant forms of regression
19. Freud and the idea of regression
20. Symptomatology and diagnosis
21. Gratifications and object relationships
22. The various forms of therapeutic regression
23. The disagreement between Freud and Ferenczi, and its repercussions

Part V The regressed patient and his analyst
24. Therapeutic regression, primary love, and the basic fault
25. The unobtrusive analyst
26. Bridging the gulf

Bibliography

Special bibliography on oral dependence and related sites

Index