Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community 2017 Edition Contributor(s): Sheils, Barry (Editor), Walsh, Julie (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319638289 ISBN-13: 9783319638287 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Psychology | Social Psychology - Social Science | Sociology - Social Theory |
Dewey: 150.195 |
Series: Studies in the Psychosocial |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.10 lbs) 281 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book brings together the work of scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freud's most important metapsychological papers: 'On Narcissism: An Introduction' (1914) and 'Mourning and Melancholia' (1917 1915]). These twin papers, conceived in the context of unprecedented social and political turmoil, mark a point in Freud's metapsychological project wherein the themes of loss and of psychic violence were becoming incontrovertible facts in the story of subject formation. Taking as their concern the difficulty of setting apart the 'inner' and the 'outer' worlds, as well as the difficulty of preserving an image of the coherently boundaried subject, the psychoanalytic frameworks of narcissism and melancholia provide the background coordinates for the volume's contributors to analyse contemporary subjectivities in new psychosocial contexts. This collection will be of great interest to all scholars and practitioners of psychoanalysis and the psychotherapies, social and cultural theory, gender and sexuality studies, politics, and psychosocial studies. |