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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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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