Author: | Jamieson Webster | ISBN: | 9780429921308 |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | March 29, 2018 |
Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
Author: | Jamieson Webster |
ISBN: | 9780429921308 |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Publication: | March 29, 2018 |
Imprint: | Routledge |
Language: | English |
From its peculiar birth in Freud’s self-analysis to its current state of deep crisis, psychoanalysis has always been a practice that questions its own existence. Like the patients that risk themselves in this act - it is somehow upon this threatened ground that the very life of psychoanalysis depends. Perhaps psychoanalysis must always remain in a precarious, indeed ghostly, position at the limit of life and death?
From its peculiar birth in Freud’s self-analysis to its current state of deep crisis, psychoanalysis has always been a practice that questions its own existence. Like the patients that risk themselves in this act - it is somehow upon this threatened ground that the very life of psychoanalysis depends. Perhaps psychoanalysis must always remain in a precarious, indeed ghostly, position at the limit of life and death?