The Psychology of Death in Fantasy and History
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: March 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780275981785
Subjects: Death & Dying; General; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Death / Grief / Consolation; Death; Fantasy; History; Psychological aspects; Psychology
First sentence: Jacques Lacan's (1966/1977) notion of the pleasures of death, no matter how macabre it may strike us at first glance, is a profound statement on the symbolic nature of the human body and its destruction or death.