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The Psychoanalysis of the Absurd - Existentialism and Phenomenology in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
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The Psychoanalysis of the Absurd - Existentialism and Phenomenology in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
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The Psychoanalysis of the Absurd offers an interdisciplinary study
of Existentialism and Phenomenology and their importance to the
clinical work of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. The
concept of Absurdity, developed by Camus, has never been applied to
the therapeutic situation or directly contrasted with its
antithesis; the search for personal meaning. The book begins with
narrative accounts of the historical development of Psychoanalysis,
Existentialism and Phenomenology in 20th century Europe. The focus
here is on fin de siecle Vienna and Paris between the Wars as the
principal incubators of the two disciplines. Accompanied by
composite case illustrations, Leffert then explores his own
development of the Psychoanalysis of the Absurd, drawing on the
work of Camus, Heidegger and Sartre. Absurdity is first discussed
in relation to the Bio-Psycho-Social Self and Dasein is posited as
a bridge concept, with personal meaning as the antithesis to
Absurdity, before being discussed in relation to the world and how
it impinges on self. A final chapter attempts to tie together
particular issues raised by the book: Subjective well-being,
Meaning, thrownness, Absurdity, Death and Death Anxiety and how we
have become technologically enhanced human beings. Existential
psychotherapy and psychoanalysis have, until now, largely gone
their own way: the goal of this book is to fold them back into
Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Establishing that the concept of
Absurdity is of singular clinical importance to both diagnosis and
therapeutic action, this book will be of great interest to
clinicians, philosophers, and interdisciplinary scientists.
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