The Dead Mother

The Dead Mother is based on a series of papers written by Ronald Britton over the past fifteen years which explore the concepts of belief and imagination from a Kleinian perspective, covering such topics as:
* the status of fantasies in an individual's mind (are they regarded as facts or possibilities)
* how the notions of objectivity and subjectivity are interrelated and have their origins in the Oedipal triangle, and
* how fantasies which are held to be products of the imagination, rather than facts or beliefs about the world, can be accounted for in psychoanalytic terms, given the lack of any account of imagination in any modern model of the mind.
As well as exploring the various aspects of belief encountered in analysis, Britton also examines the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing, and the ways in which the issues of belief, imagination and reality are explored in the works of Wordsworth, Rilke, Milton and Blake.

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