Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-385) and index.
Metapsychology and action language -- The preparatory studies -- The psychoanalytic vision of reality -- An overview of Heinz Hartmann's contributions to psychoanalysis -- The mover of the mental apparatus -- The essays on action language -- Claimed and disclaimed action -- Internalization: process or fantasy? -- Concepts of self and identity in relation to separation-individuation -- The explanation of actions -- The idea of resistance -- The problem of emotion -- Defining emotion as action -- Reworking in language of emotion -- Emotion undergone or emotion enacted? -- The native tongue of psychoanalysis.