UID:
almahu_9949386034702882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781003030508
,
1003030505
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9781000062991
,
1000062996
,
9781000063011
,
1000063011
,
9781000063004
,
1000063003
Content:
"Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis explores and develops the role of illusion and daydream in everyday life, and in psychoanalysis. Using both clinical examples and literary works, idealised illusions and the inevitable disillusion that is met when reality makes an impact, are carefully explored. Idealised phantasies which involve a timeless universe inevitably lead to disillusion in the face of reality which introduces an awareness of time, ageing and eventually death. If the illusions are recognized as phantasy rather than treated as fact, the ideal can be internalized as a symbol and serve as a measure of excellence. Steiner shows that the cruelty of truth needs to be recognized, as well as the deceptive nature of illusion, and that relinquishing omnipotence is a critical and difficult developmental task that is relived in analysis. Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis will be of great use to the psychoanalyst or psychotherapist seeking to understand the patient's withdrawal into a phantasy world, and the struggle to allow the impact of reality"--
Note:
Introduction -- 1. The Garden of Eden Illusion: finding and losing Paradise -- 2. Learning from Milton: the dangerous gap between the real and the ideal -- 3. The brutality of truth and the importance of kindness -- 4. The use and abuse of omnipotence in the journey of the hero -- 5. Disillusion, humiliation, and perversion of the facts of life -- 6. The unbearability of being feminine -- 7. The sympathetic imagination: Keats and the movement in and out of projective identification -- 8. The impact of trauma on the ability to face disillusion -- 9. Learning from Don Quixote -- 10. Reconciling phantasy and reality: the redeeming nature of irony -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Steiner, John, 1934- Illusion, disillusion, and irony in psychoanalysis. London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 ISBN 9780367467029
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003030508
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003030508
