Psychotic Temptation

Liliane Abensour author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:16th Nov '12

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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.

ISBN: 9780415673211

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 430g

188 pages