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A Psychoanalytic Exploration On Sameness and Otherness - Beyond Babel? (Paperback)
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A Psychoanalytic Exploration On Sameness and Otherness - Beyond Babel? (Paperback)
Series: The EFPP Monograph Series
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In dialogue with the most famous myth for the origin of different
languages - The Tower of Babel - A Psychoanalytic Exploration on
Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel? provides a series of timely
reflections on the themes of sameness and otherness from a
contemporary psychoanalytic perspective. How are we dealing with
communication and its difficulties, the confusion of tongues and
loss of common ground within a European context today? Can we move
beyond Babel? Confusion and feared loss of shared values and
identity are a major part of the daily work of psychoanalytic
psychotherapists. Bringing together an international range
psychoanalytic practitioners and researchers, the book is divided
into six parts and covers an array of resonant topics, including:
language and translation; cultural identity; families and children;
the cyber world; the psychotherapeutic process; and migration.
Whereas the quest for unity, which underpins the myth of Babel,
leads to mystification, simplification, and the exclusion of people
or things, multilingual communities necessitate mutual
understanding through dialogue. This book examines those factors
that further or threaten communication, aiming not to reduce, but
to gain complexity. It suggests that diversification enriches
communication and that, by relating to others, we can create
something new. As opposed to cultural and linguistic homogeneity,
Babel is not only a metaphor for mangled communication, alienation,
and distraction, it is also about the acceptance or rejection of
differences between self and other. This book will be of great
interest to psychoanalytic psychotherapists and researchers from a
wide variety of backgrounds.
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