The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis |
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Author:
| Webster, Jamieson |
ISBN: | 978-1-85575-899-5 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2011 |
Publisher: | Routledge
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $40.95 |
Book Description:
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From its peculiar birth in Freud's self-analysis to its current state of deep crisis, psychoanalysis has always been a practice that questions its own existence. Like the patients that risk themselves in this act - it is somehow upon this threatened ground that the very life of psychoanalysis depends. Perhaps psychoanalysis must always remain in a precarious, indeed ghostly, position at the limit of life and death?
From its peculiar birth in Freud's self-analysis to its current state of deep crisis, psychoanalysis has always been a practice that questions its own existence. Like the patients that risk themselves in this act - it is somehow upon this threatened ground that the very life of psychoanalysis depends. Perhaps psychoanalysis must always remain in a precarious, indeed ghostly, position at the limit of life and death?