The designed self psychoanalysis and contemporary identities
What can contemporary psychoanalysis bring to the understanding of Generation X, a cohort for whom the trivialization of a dizzying array of possible experiences teamed with the pressure to lead spectacular lives often leads to diffuse feelings of confusion, depression, and disorientation. The Desi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Hillsdale, N.J. :
Analytic Press
2005.
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| Series: | Relational perspectives book series ;
v. 27. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798420806719 |
| Summary: | What can contemporary psychoanalysis bring to the understanding of Generation X, a cohort for whom the trivialization of a dizzying array of possible experiences teamed with the pressure to lead spectacular lives often leads to diffuse feelings of confusion, depression, and disorientation. The Designed Self chronicles Strenger's therapeutic encounters with five extraordinarily gifted young adults for whom the ideal of authenticity long associated with the Baby-Boom generation was supplanted by the need to experiment endlessly with the self. Perpetual self-experimentation, constantly r |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-180) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781134912735 9780203780619 9781134912667 |
