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Enduring Loss Mourning, Depression and Narcissism Throughout the Life Cycle
272 Pages
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Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
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Routledge
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This book comprises a selection of papers initially presented as a series of lectures organised by the Psychoanalytic Forum of the British Psychoanalytical Society. The aims of these lectures was to revisit Freud's key papers 'On Narcissism' (1914) and 'Mourning and Melancholia' (1917), and to look at how they are used in today's thinking about the different stages of life. The contributions, by... Read more
Introduction , Childhood , Melancholia and mourning in childhood and adolescence: Some reflections on the role of the internal object , The lost child: Whose is the face in the mirror? , Adolescence , Dying to live: Mourning, melancholia and the adolescent process , Narcissism—an adolescent disorder? , Facing towards or turning away from destructive narcissism , Adulthood , Mourning or melancholia: What's love got to do with it? , Reconsidering narcissism from a contemporary, complex psychoanalytic view , A dehumanizing form of prejudice as part of a narcissistic pathological organisation , Old Age , Mourning in later years: Developmental perspectives , His majesty the ego: The tragic narcissism of King Lear's “crawl towards death” , Culture , States of narcissism 1
Biography
Eileen McGinley
