Matters of life and death : psychoanalytic reflections / / Salman Akhtar
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| Autore: |
Akhtar Salman <1946 July 31->
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| Titolo: |
Matters of life and death : psychoanalytic reflections / / Salman Akhtar
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Karnac, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (317 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 150.195 |
| 616.029 22 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Life - Psychological aspects |
| Death - Psychological aspects | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Title Page; Table of Contents; Copyright; Acknowledgements; About The Author; Introduction; Part I: LIFE; Chapter One: Goodness; Chapter Two: Happiness; Chapter Three: Playfulness; Part II: DEATH; Chapter Four: Mortality; Chapter Five: Graves; Chapter Six: Orphans; Part III: LIFE AND DEATH; Chapter Seven: Coda; References |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The author's focus in this book is upon the intrapsychic vicissitudes of what it means to be truly alive and how death accompanies us at each step of our life's journey. He attempts to show that, psychologically-speaking, death is always present in life and life in death. He discovers what is emotionally central to being alive and how death and awareness of death - conscious or unconscious - silently color our subjective experience. The fundamental thrust of these socio-clinical meditations is to enhance appreciation of aspects of life that have been inoptimally addressed in psychoanalytic lit |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Matters of life and death |
| ISBN: | 0-429-90189-5 |
| 0-429-47712-0 | |
| 1-283-07087-1 | |
| 9786613070876 | |
| 1-84940-708-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811032503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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