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Psychoanalysis and the birth of the self : a radical interdisciplinary approach / Mark Leffert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leffert, Mark, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychoanalysis.
- Self.
- Psychotherapy.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 173 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
- Contents:
- 1 Psychoanalysis's yesterdays, todays, and tomorrows: a brief history of being with patients p. 8
- Psychoanalysis as it was p. 11
- Psychoanalysis as it is p. 16
- A psychoanalysis for tomorrow p. 23
- 2 The neurophilosophy of consciousness p. 37
- Some diverse data points p. 38
- Putting it all together: elements of a successful theory of consciousness p. 47
- Taking stock p. 51
- Consciousness and its Neurophenomenology p. 53
- Consciousness is interpersonal p. 54
- The phenomenology of emergence p. 56
- 3 Psychoanalytic theories of development and the new science of Evo-Devo p. 63
- How evolution and development became Evo-Devo p. 65
- Epigenetics I p. 66
- What we can learn about humans from rats p. 69
- The Evo-Devo of play p. 74
- Epigenetics II p. 79
- 4 The origins of the Self and its consciousness: the Evo-Devo of human being p. 93
- So how did we get to be us? p. 94
- The first year of life p. 98
- Some notes on the history of the Self p. 100
- The origins of consciousness p. 104
- Speech and language p. 117
- 5 Being and nothingness or to be or not to be p. 131
- Camus and Hemingway p. 133
- The Existentialist approach p. 141
- The absurd and the emotions that accompany it p. 146
- 6 Common ground p. 152
- Consciousness and the Evo-Devo of the Self p. 154
- Consciousness and it discontents p. 158
- Being in World p. 161.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Leffert, Mark. Psychoanalysis and the birth of the self.
- ISBN:
- 9781138588455
- 1138588458
- 9781138588462
- 1138588466
- OCLC:
- 1019991865
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