Psychotic temptation / Liliane Abensour ; translated by David Alcorn.
"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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| Superior document: | New library of psychoanalysis |
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English French |
| Series: | New library of psychoanalysis (Unnumbered)
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 165 p. |
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| Other title: | Tentation psychotique. |
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780415673211 (hardback) 9780415673228 (paperback) 9780203078822 (electronic bk.) |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Liliane Abensour ; translated by David Alcorn. |