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 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…
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- Full title :Psychotic temptation / Liliane Abensour ; translated by David Alcorn.
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"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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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
Notes
"Published in association with the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London"--Cover.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxi, 165 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780415673228, 0415673224, 9780415673211, 0415673216, 9780203078822, 0203078829
- oclc:ocn748335625
- LC Classification:RC512
- Dewey Decimal:616.89/17
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