Psychotic temptation [electronic resource] / Liliane Abensour ; translated by David Alcorn.

Psychotic temptation [electronic resource] / Liliane Abensour ; translated by David Alcorn.

Tentation psychotique. English

9780415673211
9780415673228
9780203078822 (electronic book)

Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

English

xxi, 165 p.

RC512 .A2413 2013

616.89/17

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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