Passions of the Mind: Unheard Melodies: a Third Principle of Mental Functioning

As Social Animals, Each Of Us Can Only Be Partly Understood Through Insights Into Our Individual Psychodynamics. There Is, Within Us, Another Principle At Work: To Preserve The Group, Even At The Expense Of The Individual. In This Innovative Synthesis Of Classical Psychoanalysis And Recent Interpersonal And Object Relations Psychology, Harold N. Boris Constructs A Necessary Bridge Between Individual Psychodynamics And Group Dynamics. This Bridge Rests Upon Two, Complementary Foundations: The Egoistically- Defined Pleasure Principle Of The Couple And The Socially Defined Selection Principl.