Palgrave Macmillan | Narcissism, Melancholia And The Subject Of Community (2017 EN)

Author: Barry Sheils (Editor), Julie Walsh (Editor)
Full Title: Narcissism, Melancholia And The Subject Of Community
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2017 edition (November 6, 2017)
Year: 2017
ISBN-13: 9783319638294 (978-3-319-63829-4), 9783319638287 (978-3-319-63828-7), 9783319876481 (978-3-319-87648-1)
ISBN-10: 3319638297, 3319638289, 3319876481
Pages: 281
Language: English
Genre: Psychology: Psychosocial Studies
File type: EPUB (True), PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 85.59 €


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.


Overview:
✓ Collates discussion on two of Freud's most important metapsychological papers
✓ Analyses contemporary communities using narcissism and melancholia as a framework
✓ Balances clinical, literary, historical and political perspectives to create a truly interdisciplinary collection

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