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Lacan on Depression and Melancholia

Lacan on Depression and Melancholia

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General PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 1032106522
ISBN13: 9781032106526
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 30 2022
Pages: 194
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Lacan on Depression and Melancholia considers how clinical, cultural, and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited to properly facilitate psychoanalytical clinical practice.

The contributors to this book highlight the role of neurotic conflicts underlying depressive affects, the distinction between neurotic and psychotic structure, the nature of melancholia, and the clinical value of Freudian and Lacanian concepts - such as object a, the Other, desire, the superego, sublimation - as demonstrated via a variety of clinical and historical cases. The book includes discussions of bereavement and mourning, transference in melancholia, suicidality and the death drive, excessive creativity, melancholic identification, neurotic inhibition, and manic-depressive psychosis.

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