The importance of disappointment / Ian Craib.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craib, Ian, 1945-2002.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disappointment.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the nature of identity in late modern society, arguing that new possibilities of living, such as 'personal growth', are in fact illusions. This is shown by examining modern theories of death and ideas of masculinity.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Cutting out gingerbread people; The organisation of mourning; Psychoanalysis as the theory of disappointment; Looking on the bright side; The organisation of social life; The fragmentation of everyday life; The powerful self and its illusions; The disappointments of identity: what sort of man?; The false self of late modernity; The disappointed self; The values of psychoanalysis; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-86992-4

0-203-30446-2

1-134-86993-2

1-280-32169-5

0-203-42223-6

9780203422236

OCLC:

647380719