Symbiosis and Ambiguity: A Psychoanalytic Study (The New Library of Psychoanalysis)
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.
| Country | USA |
| Brand | Routledge |
| Manufacturer | Routledge |
| Binding | Paperback |
| IsAdultProduct | |
| Height | 9.21 |
| Length | 6.14 |
| Weight | 0.6503636729 |
| Width | 0.44 |
| ReleaseDate | 2013-01-10 |
| NumberOfItems | 1 |