Psychotic Temptation
Part of New Library of Psychoanalysis series - more in this series
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : January 2013
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 160
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 33750
- ISBN 13 : 9780415673228
- ISBN 10 : 9780415673
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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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