Psychotic temptation
"How can we understand the pull towards that which we fear: psychosis? In this thought provoking book, Abensour proposes the idea of a temptation towards psychosis rather than a regression, as a response to the hatred or denial of the subject's origins. She shares her reflections on her ps...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. :
Routledge
2013.
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| Colección: | New library of psychoanalysis (Unnumbered)
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798242306719 |
| Sumario: | "How can we understand the pull towards that which we fear: psychosis? In this thought provoking book, Abensour proposes the idea of a temptation towards psychosis rather than a regression, as a response to the hatred or denial of the subject's origins. She shares her reflections on her psychoanalytic work with psychotic patients focusing on their struggle to achieve a coherent sense of a self that can inhabit a shared world. Abensour locates this struggle within the universal human struggle to achieve a balance between what we can and cannot allow ourselves to know about the reality of death and of our insignificance in the world"-- |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781136157110 9780203078822 9781299141179 9781136157127 |
