num_pages: 310
description: Reviews the literature on theories of the self, most emerging from within the psychoanalytic tradition. Shows how almost all are associated with either the presence or the absence of the self; for example the approach of American ego psychology that identifies the unknown self with the unknowable Other, and Jacques Lacan's conception of the self as a fundamental and inevitable distortion caused by trying to insert language where it has no place. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
language: English
title: Conceiving the Self: Presence and Absence in Psychoanalytic Theory
titlecomplete: Conceiving the Self: Presence and Absence in Psychoanalytic Theory
publisher: Intl Universities Pr Inc