Making death thinkable : a psychoanalytic contribution to the problem of the transience of life / Franco De Masi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Masi, Franco.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Psychological aspects.

Death.

Bereavement--Psychological aspects.

Bereavement.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

157 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Free Association, 2004.

Contents:

Part 1 Unthinkable Death

1 On Transience 31

2 The Denial of Time and the Myth of Immortality 34

3 Panic Attack or Imaginary Death 40

4 Psychic Strategies towards Self-Annihilation 49

5 Fear or Serenity? 65

6 Potential Self and Absence of Future 70

7 A Higher Level of Consciousness 76

8 Ivan I'Lic's Death 81

9 The Mid-Life Crisis 86

10 Psychoanalysis in Old Age 97

11 Death and Psychosis 104

12 An Unthinkable Event 110

13 Death: What Reparation? 119

Part 2 The Unconscious and Death in Freud and in Melanie Klein

14 The Denial of Death 129

15 The Problem of Mourning 133

16 The Death Instinct 136

17 Melanie Klein and Innate Destructiveness 146.

ISBN:

1853437832

OCLC:

56441660