Psychotic temptation [electronic resource] / Liliane Abensour ; translated by David Alcorn.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: New library of psychoanalysis (Unnumbered)Publication details: Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2013.Description: xxi, 165 pUniform titles:- Tentation psychotique. English
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- RC512 .A2413 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. The time of psychosis : from "actual" to "present" -- pt. 2. A space for psychosis : from writing to psychoanalytic psychodrama -- pt. 3. The vertigo of creation.
"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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.