Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections

ISBN-13: 9781138462205 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Robert D. Stolorow

Opis

Interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of emotional trauma in particular, and the second pertains to the recognition that the possibility of emotional trauma is built into the basic constitution of human existence.

Spis treści

The Contextuality of Emotional Life. The Contextuality of Emotional Trauma. The Phenomenology of Trauma and the Absolutisms of Everyday Life. Trauma and Temporality. Trauma and the Ontological Unconscious. Anxiety, Authenticity, and Trauma. Conclusions: Siblings in the Same Darkness.

O autorze

Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D. is a Founding Faculty Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, a Founding Faculty Member at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City; and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. He has coauthored four other books for the Analytic Press: Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice (1997), Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life (1992), Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach (1987), Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology (1984).