Wrestling with destiny the promise of psychoanalysis
Can psychoanalysis help people control their destinies? Using empirical evidence from neuroscience, Lucy Holmes makes a powerful argument that it can. This book considers the various ways in which destiny is linked to the repetition compulsion, and how free association in psychoanalysis can literall...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Hove ; New York, N.Y. :
Routledge
2013.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798176106719 |
| Summary: | Can psychoanalysis help people control their destinies? Using empirical evidence from neuroscience, Lucy Holmes makes a powerful argument that it can. This book considers the various ways in which destiny is linked to the repetition compulsion, and how free association in psychoanalysis can literally change the mind in ways that can help people reshape and take control of the future. Freud's psychoanalysis is revealed here to be startlingly modern in its consonance with the latest findings in the study of the brain.The compulsion to repeat can propel human beings |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781135627959 9780203385609 9781299386754 9781135627881 |
