Contemporary Perspectives on the Freudian Death Drive: In Theory, Clinical Practice and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367149345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 182 str.

Victor Bluml; Liana Giorgi; Daru Huppert

Opis

Contemporary Perspectives on the Freudian Death Drive provides a sustained discussion of the death drive from the perspective of different psychoanalytic traditions. Ever since Freud introduced the notion of the death drive, it has been the subject of intense debate in psychoanalysis and beyond.

Recenzje

"Searching, scholarly and thoughtful, this valuable book is essential reading. It is not only for psychoanalysts but for all concerned people. The possibility that an innate principle of self-annihilation is at work in human behaviour and at the level of the species as well as at that of individuals is disturbing. Yet much in our contemporary situation points in its direction. If we do not want to know more, we may destroy ourselves, and many other species besides. But if we understand more, it can be ameliorated."-David Taylor, Hon,. Consultant, Tavistock Clinic; Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst, British Psychoanalytic Society; Visiting Professor, University College London Psychoanalysis Unit, UK