Psychotic Temptation

ISBN-13: 9780415673228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 170 str.

Liliane Abensour

Opis

How can we understand the pull towards that which we fear: psychosis? In this book, Abensour proposes the idea of a temptation towards psychosis rather than a regression, as a response to the hatred or denial of the subject's origins.

Spis treści

Chervet, Foreword. Rifts in the ego. Part I: The Time of Psychosis: from "Actual" to "Present". The Question of Origins. When going back is impossible. "Actual-ness", Broken Time, Time in Confusion. Part II: A Space for Psychosis: From Writing to Psychoanalytic Psychodrama. Correspondence. The Materiality of Writing. Imprinting and the Effects of Reality. Part III: The Vertigo of Creation. Liminal Space, Manic Writing. The Delusional Temptation and Imaging Thinking.

O autorze

Liliane Abensourwas a lecturer at the Faculty of English at the University of Paris VII, a training member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and co-editor of the journal of the Centre Kestemberg,Psychoanalysis and Psychosis.