Psychotic Temptation

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Mental Health
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Author: Liliane Abensour ISBN: 9781136157110
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: February 11, 2013
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Liliane Abensour
ISBN: 9781136157110
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: February 11, 2013
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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