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Taylor & Francis Ltd - Lacan On Depression And Melancholia - Paperback

Taylor & Francis Ltd - Lacan On Depression And Melancholia - Paperback

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Description: Lacan on Depression and Melancholia considers how clinical cultural and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited to properly facilitate psychoanalytical clinical practice. The contributors to this book highlight the role of neurotic conflicts underlying depressive affects the distinction between neurotic and psychotic structure the nature of melancholia and the clinical value of Freudian and Lacanian concepts such as object a the Other desire the superego sublimation as demonstrated via a variety of clinical and historical cases. The book includes discussions of bereavement and mourning transference in melancholia suicidality and the death drive excessive creativity melancholic identification neurotic inhibition and manic - depressive psychosis. Lacan on Depression and Melancholia will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in practice and training Lacanian clinicians and scholars of Lacanian theory.
Title: Lacan On Depression And Melancholia
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032106533
Pages: 194 Pages, 2 Line Drawings, Black And White; 2 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 12/30/2022
Category: Psychotherapy
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