Destructiveness, Intersubjectivity, and Trauma: The Identity Crisis of Modern Psychoanalysis

Bohleber, Werner

ISBN 10: 1855756722 / ISBN 13: 9781855756724

Published by Karnac, 2010

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First Edition. 9 x 5.75 inches. xxiv, 236 pp. Illustrated wraps. Two pages of the text dog-eard, no internal markings. Near Fine to Fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Destructiveness, Intersubjectivity, and Trauma: The Identity Crisis of Modern Psychoanalysis
• Publisher: Karnac
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855756722
• ISBN 13: 9781855756724
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

'At last we have a book that provides a comprehensive overview and assessment of the intersubjective turn in psychoanalysis, showing its logical and clinical limitations and exploring its social and cultural determinants. Bohleber emphasizes the clinical importance of real traumatic experience along with the analysis of the transference as he reviews and broadens psychoanalytic theories of memory in relation to advances in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Psychoanalytic ideas on personality, adolescence and identity are re-thought and updated. Bohleber brilliantly presents a unique understanding of malignant narcissism and prejudice in relation to European anti-Semitism and to contemporary religiously inspired terrorist violence.'- Cyril Levitt, Dr Phil, Professor and former Chair Department of Sociology, McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario. Psychoanalyst in private practice, Toronto, Ontario

About the Author

Werner Bohleber