What does it mean to be and feel alive and real? How do we become and be alive together? Human beings are uniquely concerned with the question and marvel of what it means to feel alive and real, as well as the lifelong struggle of being alive together. Becoming Alive proffers a psychoanalytic theory of experiences of being alive, acknowledging that analyst and patient, indeed, each of us, are caught up in the larger drama and mystery of being alive. Focusing on the challenge in any psychoanalytic theory to demonstrate the relation between culture, community, and the individual,...
What does it mean to be and feel alive and real? How do we become and be alive together? Human beings are uniquely concerned with the question a...
"Becoming Alive" draws on the Winnicottian idea of transitional objects, and puts forward the argument that human beings relate to and use objects in order to generate experiences of 'being alive'. Enlivened by case vignettes and examples drawn from wider culture, this book explores the idea that vitality has been picked up rather late in psychoanalysis, and stresses how becoming alive affects our intersubjective relationships as well as our relationship to objects. This is an intriguing book articulating a developmental psychoanalytic account of the experience of 'being alive'. It...
"Becoming Alive" draws on the Winnicottian idea of transitional objects, and puts forward the argument that human beings relate to and use objects in ...
