Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)

This book brings together the work of scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freud's most important metapsychological papers: 'On Narcissism: An Introduction' (1914) and 'Mourning and Melancholia' (1917 [1915]). These twin papers, conceived in the context of unprecedented social and political turmoil, mark a point in Freud's metapsychological project wherein the themes of loss and of psychic violence were becoming incontrovertible facts in the story of subject formation. Taking as their concern the difficulty of setting apart the 'inner' and the 'outer' worlds, as well as the difficulty of preserving an image of the coherently boundaried subject, the psychoanalytic frameworks of narcissism and melancholia provide the background coordinates for the volume's contributors to analyse contemporary subjectivities in new psychosocial contexts. This collection will be of great interest to all scholars and practitioners of psychoanalysis and the psychotherapies, social and cultural theory, gender and sexuality studies, politics, and psychosocial studies.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Studies in the Psychosocial
Release date:	August 2018
First published:	2017
Editors:	Barry Sheils • Julie Walsh
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	281
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-87648-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	3-319-87648-1
Barcode:	9783319876481

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