The Importance of Disappointment

ISBN-13: 9780415093828 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 216 str.

Ian Craib

Opis

Concerns the emotion of disappointment and psychoanalysis. This book looks at the organization of social life and the fragmentation of everyday life, examining issues of the self and identity.

Spis treści

1. Cutting Out Gingerbread People 2. The Organisation of Mourning 3. Psychoanalysis as the Theory of Disappointment 4. Looking on the Bright Side 5. The Organisation of Social Life 6. The Fragmentation of Everyday Life 7. The Powerful Self and Its Illusions 8. The Disappointments of Identity: What Sort of Man 9. The False Self of Late Modernity 10. The Disappointed Self 11. The Values of Psychoanalysis

O autorze

Ian Craib is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex and a psychoanalytic group psychotherapist.