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Psychotic Temptation (The New Library of Psychoanalysis) - Hardcover

Book 66 of 114: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

Abensour, Liliane

 
9780415673211: Psychotic Temptation (The New Library of Psychoanalysis)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415673216 ISBN 13: 9780415673211
Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Liliane Abensourwas a lecturer at the Faculty of English at the University of Paris VII, a training member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and co-editor of the journal of the Centre Kestemberg,Psychoanalysis and Psychosis.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415673216
ISBN 13 
9780415673211
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
188