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- Thoughtful and informed insights on contemporary psychoanalytic theories of the self  and its pathologiesOffers plenty of interesting questions and some suggestive insights
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This book examines the psychological responses of people to the excitements and terrors that characterise the modern world. Beginning with a description of modernist and post-modernist accounts of contemporary life, it then moves into detailed discussions of narcissism and psychosis - two states of mind that seem to characterise the 'crises of self' to which the modern world gives rise.
With an interweaving of social theory and psychodynamic explanations, this is a sophisticated and compelling text. Identity Crisis will be of interest to students in a wide range of disciplines including psychology, sociology, psychoanalysis, politics and cultural studies.Â
With an interweaving of social theory and psychodynamic explanations, this is a sophisticated and compelling text. Identity Crisis will be of interest to students in a wide range of disciplines including psychology, sociology, psychoanalysis, politics and cultural studies.Â
About the author
Stephen Frosh is Pro-Vice-Master and Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and was previously Vice-Dean of the Tavistock Clinic. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis, including Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic, Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis, For and Against Psychoanalysis, After Words, The Politics of Psychoanalysis and Sexual Difference and Identity Crisis. His most recent books are Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions and A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Identity Crisis
Book Subtitle: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and the Self
Authors: Stephen Frosh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21534-8
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Stephen Frosh 1991
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 217
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Psychoanalysis