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Longing for Nothingness
Andrew Stein
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Description for Longing for Nothingness
Hardback. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
In Longing for Nothingness: Resistance, Denial, and the Place of Death in the Nursing Home, Andrew Stein offers a groundbreaking new psychoanalytic treatment of the depression and other mental conflicts suffered by residents living in nursing homes. Freud famously argued that humans had a dual drive, toward life and toward death, and in this new study Stein shows that residents may suffer because they cannot control one part of that dualism, their "longing for nothingness." Weaving together elements of Freud's life and writings, Lacanian and Kleinian notions, and clinical material in a new and surprising manner, Stein shows that a frightening breakdown of symbolic and imaginary defenses opens nursing home residents to these deeply repressed longings. Because they often do not know how to respond, the result is an increase in their suffering and tendency to despair. Longing for Nothingness makes an impassioned plea for all people, not only residents of nursing homes, to fully acknowledge the role of death in the structures of their desires. By doing this, they will be spared the unnecessary suffering caused by the struggle to keep their longings for death repressed. Stein presents an alternate strategy: bringing the longings for death a little more into consciousness, where they can be addressed without fueling debilitating symptoms like depression and rage.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
Number of Pages
194
Place of Publication
Northvale NJ, United States
ISBN
9780765705778
SKU
V9780765705778
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About Andrew Stein
Andrew Stein holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from The Union University and Institute. He sees patients in private practice and at a number of nursing home facilities in New York City.
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