Importance of Disappointment

Informationen zum Autor Ian Craib is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex and a psychoanalytic group psychotherapist. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This book explores the nature of identity in late modern society, arguing that new possibilities of living, such as 'personal growth', are in fact illusions. This is shown by examining modern theories of death and ideas of masculinity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Ian Craib, Craib Ian
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.1994
• EAN: 9780415093828
• ISBN: 978-0-415-09382-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sozialpsychologie, Das Selbst, das Ich, Identität und Persönlichkeit, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis