Lacan on depression and melancholia / edited by Derek Hook and Stijn Vanheule.

Other author Hook, Derek.
Other author Vanheule, Stijn, 1974-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Descriptionpages cm
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Abstract "Lacan on Depression and Melancholia considers how clinical, cultural and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited in order to facilitate properly 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 discussion of bereavement and mourning, transference in melancholia, suicidality and the death drive, excessive creativity, melancholic identification, neurotic inhibition, and manic-depressive psychosis. Lacan on Depression and Melancholia will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in practice and in training, Lacanian clinicians, and scholars of Lacanian theory"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2022036629
ISBN9781032106526 (hardback)
ISBN9781032106533 (paperback)
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