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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463038603321

Autore

Strenger Carlo

Titolo

The designed self : psychoanalysis and contemporary identities / / Carlo Strenger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hillsdale, N.J. : , : Analytic Press, , 2005

ISBN

0-203-78061-2

1-134-91266-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Relational perspectives book series ; ; v. 27

Disciplina

155.2/5

Soggetti

Identity (Psychology)

Psychoanalysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-180) and index.

Nota di contenuto

ch. 1. The self as perpetual experiment -- ch. 2. Nobrow : forming an identity in urban culture -- ch. 3. The Bobo dilemma -- ch. 4. Failing fathers, failing sons -- ch. 5. Finding ethnic identity and a place in Western society -- ch. 6. Psychoanalysis in the age of the designed self.

Sommario/riassunto

What can contemporary psychoanalysis bring to the understanding of Generation X, a cohort for whom the trivialization of a dizzying array of possible experiences teamed with the pressure to lead spectacular lives often leads to diffuse feelings of confusion, depression, and disorientation.  The Designed Self chronicles Strenger's therapeutic encounters with five extraordinarily gifted young adults for whom the ideal of authenticity long associated with the Baby-Boom generation was supplanted by the need to experiment endlessly with the self.  Perpetual self-experimentation, constantly r