The designed self: psychoanalysis and contemporary identities

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What can contemporary psychoanalysis bring to the understanding of Generation X, a cohort for whom the trivialization of a dizzying array of possible experiences teamed with the pressure to lead spectacular lives often leads to diffuse feelings of confusion, depression, and disorientation. The Designed Self chronicles Strenger's therapeutic encounters with five extraordinarily gifted young adults for whom the ideal of authenticity long associated with the Baby-Boom generation was supplanted by …

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Full title :The designed self : psychoanalysis and contemporary identities / Carlo Strenger.

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Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Analytic Press
Place of Publication:Hillsdale, NJ
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxvii, 193 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781134912667, 1134912668, 9780203780619, 0203780612
oclc:ocn844924488
LC Classification:BF697
Dewey Decimal:155.2/5

Ch. 1. The self as perpetual experiment -- ch. 2. Nobrow : forming an identity in urban culture -- ch. 3. The Bobo dilemma -- ch. 4. Failing fathers, failing sons -- ch. 5. Finding ethnic identity and a place in Western society -- ch. 6. Psychoanalysis in the age of the designed self.

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Case studies Identitätsentwicklung Identitätsfindung Identitätskrise Identité (Psychologie) Identité (Psychologie) -- Études de cas Identiteit Identity (Psychology) Identity (Psychology) -- Case studies Jugend Perception de soi Postmoderne Psychanalyse Psychanalyse -- Études de cas Psychoanalyse Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis -- Case studies Psychoanalytic Theory Psychoanalytische therapie PSYCHOLOGY -- Personality