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Child Is Being Killed: On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive
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Title: Child Is Being Killed: On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive
Author: Serge LeClaire
ISBN: 9780804731416
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1998
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 102
Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: The powerful thesis of this book is that in order to achieve full selfhood we must all repeatedly and endlessly kill the phantasmatic image of ourselves instilled in us by our parents. We must all combat what the author calls "primary narcissism, " a projection of the child our parents wanted. Each of the book's five chapters begins with one or more case studies drawn from the author's clinical experience as a psychoanalyst. In these studies he links his central concern - the image of the child created by the unconscious desire of the parents - to other issues, such as the question of love, the concept of the subject, and the death drive. In the penultimate chapter, on transference, the author challenges the commonplace understanding of the analyst's impassivity. What does such impassivity imply, especially in the context of a "transferential love" between a female patient and a male analyst? In replying to this question, the author forcefully reassesses the relation of psychoanalysis to femininity, to the question, "What does a woman want?"
Author: Serge LeClaire
ISBN: 9780804731416
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1998
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 102
Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: The powerful thesis of this book is that in order to achieve full selfhood we must all repeatedly and endlessly kill the phantasmatic image of ourselves instilled in us by our parents. We must all combat what the author calls "primary narcissism, " a projection of the child our parents wanted. Each of the book's five chapters begins with one or more case studies drawn from the author's clinical experience as a psychoanalyst. In these studies he links his central concern - the image of the child created by the unconscious desire of the parents - to other issues, such as the question of love, the concept of the subject, and the death drive. In the penultimate chapter, on transference, the author challenges the commonplace understanding of the analyst's impassivity. What does such impassivity imply, especially in the context of a "transferential love" between a female patient and a male analyst? In replying to this question, the author forcefully reassesses the relation of psychoanalysis to femininity, to the question, "What does a woman want?"
