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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Abingdon [England] ; New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Colección: | New library of psychoanalysis (Unnumbered)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 165 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781136157127 |