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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Holmes, Lucy., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: 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
Table of Contents:
  • WRESTLING WITH DESTINY The promise of psychoanalysis; Copyright; Contents; Permissions acknowledgements; The Appointment in Samarra; Introduction; 1 Why talking cures; 2 Anatomy as destiny; 3 The oppression of women; 4 The capacity to love; 5 How to get a divorce; 6 Fear of success; 7 Bombed and wasted; 8 Creative aging; 9 Cure; References; Index