Psychoanalysis, the Self, and the World - Postphenomenology, Consciousness, and Death

This book takes psychoanalysis into the 21st Century, examining issues of existentialism, postphenomenology, social media, and death and death anxiety that have gone largely ignored in the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic literature.

List of contents

Introduction  1. So Why Do We Need Philosophy Anyway? Phenomenology, Postmodernism, and the Plague in the Psychoanalytic Workplace  2. The Evo-Devo of Phenomenology and Prephenomenology  3. Postphenomenology and Its Evo-Devo  4. Consciousness and Unconsciousness: A Fresh Appraisal  5. Death and Death Anxiety - A Further Search for Meaning  Afterword

About the author

Mark Leffert was educated in medicine, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis in New York and California. He has maintained a practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Del Mar, Minneapolis, and, currently, Santa Barbara. He has been on the faculty of five psychoanalytic institutes and has been a training and supervising analyst at four of them. He is the author of six prior books and several papers.

Summary

This book takes psychoanalysis into the 21st Century, examining issues of existentialism, postphenomenology, social media, and death and death anxiety that have gone largely ignored in the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic literature.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Leffert, Leffert Mark
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032394008
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3239400-8
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis