In his new collection of essays, Occasional Desire, David Lazar meditates on random violence and vanished phone booths, on the excessive relationship to jewelry that links Kobe Bryant and Elizabeth Taylor, on Hitchcock, Francis Bacon, and M.F.K. Fisher. He explores, in his conce…
by ebrary, Inc, Orbach, Susie, Petrucelli, Jean
A contemporary, interdisciplinary exploration of one of psychoanalysis's most foundational and fascinating areas of investigation. This anthology explores the vicissitudes and varieties of desire, its public and private, normative and transgressive, its light and dark expression…
1. The myth of mental illness -- 2. That discreet object of desire -- 3. Ressentiment : an existential paradigm for symptom formation -- 4. Deciphering psychopathology -- 5. What to make of an incidence of incomprehensible madness (or a clinical case not so easy to diagnose) -- …
An exploration of the relation between desire and psychopathology, this book is a unique synthesis of the work of Laing, Freud, Nietzsche, and Heidegger that renders their often difficult concepts brilliantly accessible to and usable by psychotherapists of all persuasions.
"Tackling some central problems in the philosophy of action, Mele constructs an explanatory model for intentional behavior, locating the place and significance of such mental phenomena as beliefs, desires, reasons, and intentions in the etiology of intentional action." "In the f…
Tackling some central problems in the philosophy of action, Mele constructs an explanatory model for intentional behavior, locating the place and significance of such mental phenomena as beliefs, desires, reasons, and intentions in the etiology of intentional action. In the firs…
