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The promise : who is in charge of time and space? /
Our sense of identity begins (our psychological birth sometime in the first year of life) with the feeling that we are the centre of the universe, protected by godlike benevolent parents who will enable us to live happily ever after. This is the ""Promise"" that is never given up...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Karnac Books,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Promise, change, and trauma
- On the trauma of seeing mother's genitals
- Chronic trauma and soul murder : literary and clinical examples
- Haunting and parricide
- Virginia Woolf haunted
- Rage as a fact of life (or, who is in charge of time and space?)
- Killing (or not killing) the king
- Vladimir Nabokov : murderous impulses displaced onto Freud and literary rivals, and sublimated in relation to butterflies and chess
- The psychological effect of birthdays and anniversaries
- Jewish holidays : Chanukah, Purim, Passover, Rosh Hashana, and Yom Kippur
- Christian holidays : Christmas, New Year's Day, Lent, and Easter
- Secular holidays : Thanksgiving, St. Valentine's Day, Memorial Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and the Fourth of July
- Holiday from psychoanalysis : as August approaches
- Being both sexes, addendum : a clinical observation on anal sexuality
- Stella, the infant as the centre of the universe.