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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786273803321

Autore

Abensour Liliane

Titolo

Psychotic temptation / / Liliane Abensour ; translated by David Alcorn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-15711-5

0-203-07882-9

1-299-14117-X

1-136-15712-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

New library of psychoanalysis

Classificazione

PSY026000PSY036000

Altri autori (Persone)

AlcornDavid

Disciplina

616.89/17

Soggetti

Psychoses

Psychoanalysis

Mental illness

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The time of psychosis : from "actual" to "present" -- pt. 2. A space for psychosis : from writing to psychoanalytic psychodrama -- pt. 3. The vertigo of creation.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--