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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789549003321

Autore

Sacerdoti Giorgio

Titolo

Irony through psychoanalysis [[electronic resource] /] / Giorgio Sacerdoti ; translated by Geraldine Ludbrook ; forewords by Joseph Sandler and Cesare Musatti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Karnac Books, 1992

ISBN

0-429-47624-8

1-283-11852-1

9786613118523

1-84940-672-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LudbrookGeraldine

SandlerJoseph

MusattiCesare

Disciplina

150.19

Soggetti

Irony - Psychological aspects

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Italian edition, L'ironia attraverso la psicoanalisi, c1987 Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano, via Rossini 4."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; FOREWORD TO THE ENGLISH EDITION; FOREWORD TO THE ITALIAN EDITION; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Irony through a psychoanalytic lens; CHAPTER TWO: Ironic aspects in clinical psychoanalysis; CHAPTER THREE: Ironic aspects in psychoanalytic theorization; CHAPTER FOUR: Stable irony and genitality: an historical perspective; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The title of this book, Irony Through Psychoanalysis, reveals its double register in which the psychoanalysis and irony are respectively the object and the means (or the viewpoint) or vice versa. Thus, the first chapter reviews the modern concepts of irony through the psychoanalytic lens, whilst the two central chapters examine clinical psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theorization from the perspective of irony.Making extensive use of detailed personal material, Chapter Two looks at how the concept of irony might be broadened to include preconscious and unconscious aspects, and how we might s