The Pale Criminal: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367326029 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 192 str.

Stephen J. Costello

Opis

It was Freud, borrowing Nietszche's phrase from Thus Spake Zarathustra, who described as 'pale criminals' those who committed criminal acts out of deep-lying (unconscious) guilt. The focus of this challenging and penetrating study is on this type of criminality. The book bring sa 'unifying vision and theoretical integration' to the array

Spis treści

Introduction -- Freud: a need for punishment -- Jung: the spell of the shadow -- Klein: the severity of the superego -- Winnicott: delinquency and deprivation -- Lacan: the symbolic mistaken for the real -- Psychiatry: antisocial personality disorder -- Towards a synthesis -- Concluding Note

O autorze

J. Costello, Stephen