Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community Paperback / softback
Edited by Barry Sheils, Julie Walsh
Part of the Studies in the Psychosocial series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book brings together the work of scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freud's most important metapsychological papers: 'On Narcissism: An Introduction' (1914) and 'Mourning and Melancholia' (1917 [1915]). These twin papers, conceived in the context of unprecedented social and political turmoil, mark a point in Freud's metapsychological project wherein the themes of loss and of psychic violence were becoming incontrovertible facts in the story of subject formation.
Taking as their concern the difficulty of setting apart the `inner' and the `outer' worlds, as well as the difficulty of preserving an image of the coherently boundaried subject, the psychoanalytic frameworks of narcissism and melancholia provide the background coordinates for the volume's contributors to analyse contemporary subjectivities in new psychosocial contexts.
This collection will be of great interest to all scholars and practitioners of psychoanalysis and the psychotherapies, social and cultural theory, gender and sexuality studies, politics, and psychosocial studies.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:281 pages, VIII, 281 p.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:31/08/2018
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- ISBN:9783319876481
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:281 pages, VIII, 281 p.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:31/08/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9783319876481
