On Arrogance

ISBN-13: 9781032669397 / Twarda / 2024 / 184 str.

Giuseppe Civitarese

Opis

This book explores the notion of arrogance from a broadly psychoanalytic perspective and examines its importance in the consulting room and the wider world.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1. The Characteristics of Arrogance  1. Preliminary definition  2. Mr. Charlus smiles  3. Susceptibility of Henry V  4. The women of Agamemnon  5. Blindness of Antigone  6. Übermut  Part 2. The Arrogance of Psychoanalysis  1. Arrogance curiosity stupidity  2. Oedipus and the will to know  3. A new syndrome  4. Psychogenesis of the cruel superego  5. The psychosis of psychoanalysis  6. Negative capability  7. The Neutral Part 3. Arrogance and Society  1. Doxa  2. Pandemic  3. The new discontent of civilization  4. Scientia sexualis  5. Perfect and invisible  6. A safe place  Part 4. Recognition  1. Confession/forgiveness  2. At-one-ment  Conclusions

O autorze

Giuseppe Civitarese, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist and training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI), and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) and of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). He lives and is in private practice, in Pavia, Italy.