Psychoanalysis and Repetition: Why Do We Keep Making the Same Mistakes?

by Juan-David Nasio

Book Overview

In Psychoanalysis and Repetition, Juan-David Nasio, one of the leading contemporary Lacanian psychoanalysts in France, argues that unconscious repetition represents the core of psychoanalysis as well as no less than the fundamental constitution of the human being. Through repetition, the unconscious memory of the past erupts, without our knowledge, in our choices and actions, to such an extent that, for Nasio, we are our past in action. While...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438475101
• ISBN13: 9781438475103
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"