The Death Drive: A Contemporary Introduction - Couverture rigide

Valdrè, Rossella

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1032755873 ISBN 13 : 9781032755878

Editeur : Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

This comprehensive yet accessible book analyses the clinical and historical experiences that led to the radical, complex and fundamental psychoanalytic concept of the death drive.

In The Death Drive: A Contemporary Introduction, Rossella Valdrè traces the path that led Sigmund Freud to theorise this key concept in his essay, Beyond the Pleasure Principle. She considers its roots in Freud's experiences of war trauma and his assessment of the human compulsion to repeat, as well as its consequences on his later theoretical and clinical work. Short vignettes from the clinician's room and examples from books and films introduce the reader to the birth and development of the concept, its biological and philosophical roots and its many clinical implications. Valdrè also reviews its varied reception among post-Freudians, and examines the controversies and questions that the death drive commonly engenders within the psychoanalytic community. She concludes by considering the death drive through the medium of art, its relationship with sublimation and the confirmation neuroscience is beginning to provide.

Written in a style that is at once accessible and precise, this book is an invaluable tool to students and psychoanalysts in training approaching the theory for the first time, as well as practising analysts, postgraduate students and scholars familiar with the concept and looking to explore it further.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Rossella Valdrè is a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and Training Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and International Psychoanalytical Association. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Freudian Death Drive: In Theory, the Clinic, and Art (2019), Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Power in Contemporary Fiction: Malice, the Victim and the Couple (2017) and On Sublimation: A Path to the Destiny of Desire, Theory, and Treatment (2014).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1032755873
• ISBN 13: 9781032755878
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 104
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible