"In this edited collection a distinguished set of contributors present a broad overview of psychological research on self-esteem. Each chapter is written by leading experts in the field, and surveys current research on a particular issue concerning self-esteem. Together, the cha…
"In this edited collection a distinguished set of contributors present a broad overview of psychological research on self-esteem. Each chapter is written by leading experts in the field, and surveys current research on a particular issue concerning self-esteem. Together, the cha…
Unfinished: the anthropology of becoming
Foreword: Unfinished / João Biehl and Peter Locke -- Introduction: Ethnographic sensorium / João Biehl and Peter Locke -- The anthropology of becoming / João Biehl and Peter Locke -- Becoming aggrieved: an alternative framework of care in black Chicago / Laurence Ralph -- Heaven…
Unfinished: the anthropology of becoming
This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terrain of an anthropology of becoming. People's becomings trouble and exceed ways of knowing and acting, producing new possibilities fo…
Unfinished: the anthropology of becoming
The contributors to Unfinished explore the ethnographic essay's expressive potentials by pursuing an anthropology of becoming, which attends to the contingency of lived experience and provides new means to represent what life means and how it can be represented.
Birth to psychic life
by Ciccone, Albert, Lhopital, Marc
fromThe new library of psychoanalysis
Based on rich clinical experience and on theory from numerous psychoanalytical works, this book explores and analyses the emergence and development of the psychic life. Birth to Psychic Life explores the genesis of the psychic apparatus, reconstructs the development of subjectiv…
"This book deals with the process through which a coherent self evolves, the various ways such development fails to occur, and the therapeutic measures to put things back together. It deals with the psychotic core, the schizoid wish to die and be reborn, the fantasies related to…
Time, Self, and Psychoanalysis has two theoretical foci: the first is the nature of time experience and the second is the implications of the understanding of time for conceptualizing the nature and functioning of the self. The result is a rethinking of the self-concept and its …
Is play only a children's activity? How is the spontaneous play of adults expressed? What is the difference between "play" and "game"? What function does play have during war?Play:Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Survival and Human Development explores the importance of play in the …