Objects of Hope brings ranging scholarship and refreshing candor to bear on the knotty issue of what can and cannot be achieved in the course of psychoanalytic therapy. It will be valued not only as an exemplary exercise in comparative psychoanaly

Steven H. Cooper, Ph.D., is a training and supervising analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, a faculty member and supervising analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School. The author of numerous psychoanalytic papers, Dr. Cooper has served on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is currently on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. He is in private practice in Cambridge, MA.

Introduction. Part I: The Conspiratorial Timeless Unconscious. Objects of Hope. The Conspiratorial Timeless Unconscious: A Comparative View of Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Limit. Part II: Intimacy and Solitude: A Comparative Perspective on Sources of Influence in American Relational Theory and British Object Relations Theory. Intimacy and Solitude. The Old and New Object in Fairbairnian and American Relational Theory. Elements of Mutual Containment in the Analytic Situation. Part III: The Shifting Surface: A Comparative Perspective on Sources of Influence in American Relational Theory and Ego Psychology. Regression and the Old/New Object Continuum: Molly and the Problem of "Anti-Regression" and Progression. In Loewald's Shadow: Interpretation and the Psychic Future. Countertransference Expressiveness and the American Relational and American Ego Psychology Models: A Clinical Comparative Perspective. The Analyst's Construction of Psychic Possibility. Psychoanalytic Theory as a Logic of Hope.