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Being for the Other

Emmanuel Levinas, Ethical Living and Psychoanalysis

Paul Marcus author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Marquette University Press

Published:30th Jul '08

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Freud wrote that "analysis makes for integration but does not itself make for goodness." Marcus (National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis) introduces the seminal work of French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95), who worked toward an ethically-infused being for the Other psychoanalysis influenced by his Holocaust experience, to English-speaking audiences. The volume includes clinical vignettes relating to the themes of love, suffering, and religion, and a Levinas bibliography.

ISBN: 9780874627633

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278 pages