The Importance of Disappointment
1st Edition
Published on 22. September 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-0-415-09383-5 (ISBN)
Description
This sane and insightful discussion explores the nature of identity in late modern societies to criticize the way in which psychotherapy has become an ideology of late modernity and to emphasize the importance of `negative' messages in psychoanalytic theory.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
311 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-09383-5 (9780415093835)
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Ian Craib
The Importance of Disappointment
Book
09/1994
1st Edition
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Person
Ian Craib is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex and a psychoanalytic group psychotherapist.
Content
1. Cutting Out Gingerbread People 2. The Organisation of Mourning 3. Psychoanalysis as the Theory of Disappointment 4. Looking on the Bright Side 5. The Organisation of Social Life 6. The Fragmentation of Everyday Life 7. The Powerful Self and Its Illusions 8. The Disappointments of Identity: What Sort of Man 9. The False Self of Late Modernity 10. The Disappointed Self 11. The Values of Psychoanalysis