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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Strenger, Carlo., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hillsdale, N.J. : Analytic Press 2005.
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
Table of Contents:
  • ch. 1. The self as perpetual experiment
  • ch. 2. Nobrow : forming an identity in urban culture
  • ch. 3. The Bobo dilemma
  • ch. 4. Failing fathers, failing sons
  • ch. 5. Finding ethnic identity and a place in Western society
  • ch. 6. Psychoanalysis in the age of the designed self.