Psychotic temptation
By: Liliane Abensour ; translated by David Alcorn
Series: The new library of psychoanalysis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415673211; 9780415673228
Subjects: Mental illness; Psychoses; Psychoanalysis; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health; PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis
Work titles: Tentation psychotique
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.