Matters of life and death : psychoanalytic reflections / Salman Akhtar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akhtar, Salman, 1946 July 31-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life--Psychological aspects.

Life.

Death--Psychological aspects.

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author's focus in this book is upon the intrapsychic vicissitudes of what it means to be truly alive and how death accompanies us at each step of our life's journey. He attempts to show that, psychologically-speaking, death is always present in life and life in death. He discovers what is emotionally central to being alive and how death and awareness of death - conscious or unconscious - silently color our subjective experience. The fundamental thrust of these socio-clinical meditations is to enhance appreciation of aspects of life that have been inoptimally addressed in psychoanalytic lit

Contents:

Title Page; Table of Contents; Copyright; Acknowledgements; About The Author; Introduction; Part I: LIFE; Chapter One: Goodness; Chapter Two: Happiness; Chapter Three: Playfulness; Part II: DEATH; Chapter Four: Mortality; Chapter Five: Graves; Chapter Six: Orphans; Part III: LIFE AND DEATH; Chapter Seven: Coda; References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-429-90189-5

0-429-47712-0

1-283-07087-1

9786613070876

1-84940-708-8

9780429477126

OCLC:

726829108