Psychotic Temptation

By Liliane Abensour

Book Overview

How can we understand the pull towards that which we fear: psychosis?

In this thought provoking book, Abensour proposes the idea of a temptation towards psychosis rather than a regression, as a response to the hatred or denial of the subject's origins. She shares her reflections on her psychoanalytic work with psychotic patients focusing on their struggle to achieve a coherent sense of a self that can inhabit a shared world. Abensour locates this struggle within the universal human struggle to achieve a balance between what we can and cannot allow ourselves to know about the reality of death and of our insignificance in the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415673224
• ISBN13: 9780415673228
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"