Psychotic temptation

"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 ps...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Abensour, Liliane (-)
Otros Autores: Alcorn, David
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge 2013.
Colección:New library of psychoanalysis (Unnumbered)
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Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxi, 165 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781136157127