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A Child Is Being Killed - On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive (Hardcover)
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A Child Is Being Killed - On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive (Hardcover)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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The powerful thesis of this book is that in order to achieve full
selfhood we must all repeatedly and endlessly kill the phantasmatic
image of ourselves instilled in us by our parents. We must all
combat what the author calls "primary narcissism," a projection of
the child our parents wanted. This idea--that each of us carries as
a burden an unconscious secret of our parents, a hidden desire that
we are made to live out but that we must kill in order to "be
born"--touches on some of the fundamental issues of psychoanalytic
theory. Around it, the author builds an intricate analysis of the
relation between primary narcissism and the death drive.
Each of the book's five chapters begins with one or more case
studies drawn from the author's clinical experience as a
psychoanalyst. In these studies he links his central concern--the
image of the child created by the unconscious desire of the
parents--to other issues, such as the question of love, the concept
of the subject, and the death drive. In the penultimate chapter, on
transference, the author challenges the commonplace understanding
of the analyst's impassivity. What does such impassivity imply,
especially in the context of a "transferential love" between a
female patient and a male analyst? In replying to this question,
the author forcefully reassesses the relation of psychoanalysis to
femininity, to the question "What does a woman want?"
Serge Leclaire's overarching thesis leads to a provocative
rereading of the Oedipal configuration. Leclaire suggests that he
is inhabited, pursued, haunted, and debilitated by the child who
should have died in order that Oedipus might have been born into
life.
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