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.
Summary
"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:Hove, East Sussex
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxi, 165 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781136157127, 1136157123, 9780203078822, 0203078829, 9780203078822
- DOI:10.4324/9780203078822
- oclc:ocn827947070
- LC Classification:RC512
- Dewey Decimal:616.89/17
Table of Contents
Front Cover; Psychotic Temptation; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Rifts in the ego; Part One The Time of Psychosis: From "Actual" to "Present"; 1 The question of origins; 2 When going back is impossible; 3 "Actual-ness", broken time, time in confusion; Part Two A Space for Psychosis: From Writing to Psychoanalytic Psychodrama; 4 Correspondence; 5 The materiality of writing; 6 Imprinting and the effects of reality; Part Three The Vertigo of Creation; 7 Liminal space, manic writing; 8 The delusional temptation and imaging thinking; Notes; References; Index.
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