@article{1469921,
      recid = {1469921},
      author = {Reshe, Julie,},
      title = {Negative psychoanalysis for the living dead :  philosophical pessimism and the death drive /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book offers a radical alternative to the positive  orientation of popular psychology. This positive  orientation has been criticized numerous times. However,  there has yet to be a coherent alternative proposed. We all  know today that life hurts and that there is no ultimate  remedy to this pain. The positive approach feels to us as  dishonest and irrelevant. We require a new, more negative,  perspective and practice, one that is honest and does not  pretend to offer an escape from the agonies of the world.  This book offers in three main chapters a depressive  realist perspective that explores the structural role of  negativity and tragedy in relation to the individual  psyche, society, and nature. It explores the possibility of  negative psychoanalysis which takes into account the  tragedy of human existence instead of adopting escapist  positions. Julie Reshe is a Ukrainian-born philosopher, a  practicing negative psychoanalyst, and a public  intellectual. She is currently a visiting professor at  University College Cork and University College Dublin. She  is also a Director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis at  the Global Centre for Advanced Studies.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1469921},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31201-4},
}