Work and Its Inhibitions: Psychoanalytic Essays Book

	Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Editors' Introduction and Overview
1	Child's Work: Developmental Aspects of the Capacity to Work and Enjoy It	3
2	Psychoanalysis and Playful Work	19
3	The Self and the Principle of Work	35
4	Infancy and the Essential Nature of Work	61
5	Freud: Man at Work	79
6	A Self Psychological Perspective of Work and Its Inhibitions	99
7	A Room of One's Own Revisited	115
8	In Praise of Leisure	133
9	Men at Work: Work, Ego and Identity in the Analysis of Adult Men	143
10	Work and Its Inhibitions as Seen in Children and Adolescents	159
11	On Writer's Block: For Whom Does One Write or Not Write?	183
12	Creative Work, Work Inhibitions and Their Relation to Internal Objects	191
13	The Vicissitudes of Shame in Stage Fright	209
14	Aggression, Body Image, and Work Inhibition	221
15	Genital Self-examination: The Precursor of Examination Anxiety in Women	229
16	Ambition: Normal and Pathological Aspects	241
17	On the Sense of Being "Incomplete": Fragments from the Analysis of a Narcissistic Personality Disorder	253
	Author Index	265
	Subject Index	269