The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis
Author | : Jamieson Webster |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2018-03-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780429921308 |
ISBN-13 | : 0429921306 |
Rating | : 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis by : Jamieson Webster
Download or read book The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis written by Jamieson Webster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?