| Description |
xxi, 165 p. |
| Series |
New library of psychoanalysis |
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New library of psychoanalysis (Unnumbered)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The time of psychosis : from "actual" to "present" -- pt. 2. A space for psychosis : from writing to psychoanalytic psychodrama -- pt. 3. The vertigo of creation. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Psychoses.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Mental illness.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Alcorn, David.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780415673211 (hardback) |
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9780415673228 (paperback) |
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9780203078822 (electronic bk.) |
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