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The book of love and pain : thinking at the limit with Freud and Lacan

Title
The book of love and pain : thinking at the limit with Freud and Lacan / Juan-David Nasio ; translated by David Pettigrew and François Raffoul.
Author
Nasio, Juan-David.
Publication
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004.

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Description
vii, 143 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
"In The Book of Love and Pain, Juan-David Nasio offers the first exclusive treatment of psychic pain in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic literature. Using insights gained from more than three decades as a practicing psychoanalyst, Nasio addresses the limits faced by the analyst in attempting to think and treat pain psychoanalytically. He suggests that while pain is about separation and loss, psychic pain is intensified by paradoxical overinvestment in the lost loved one. Included are discussions of the pain of mourning, the pain of jouissance, unconscious pain, pain as an object of the drive, pain as a form of sexuality, pain and the scream, and the pain of silence. In offering a phenomenological description of psychic pain, The Book of Love and Pain fills a gaping void in psychoanalytic research and will play an important role in our understanding of the human psyche. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Series Statement
SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
Uniform Title
  • Livre de la douleur et de l'amour. English
  • SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
Alternative Title
Livre de la douleur et de l'amour.
Subject
  • Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
  • Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
  • Pain > Psychological aspects
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Bereavement
  • Stress, Psychological > therapy
  • Bereavement
  • Pain > psychology
  • Psychoanalytic Theory
  • Psychoanalytic Therapy > methods
  • Psychoanalysis
  • psychoanalysis
  • mourning
  • Pain > Psychological aspects
  • Schmerz
  • Psychoanalyse
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-139) and index.
Contents
Clémence, or the experience of pain -- Threshold -- Psychical pain, pain of love -- Archipelago of pain -- Corporeal pain : a psychoanalytic conception -- Lessons on pain -- Excerpts from Freud and Lacan concerning psychical pain -- Excerpts from Freud concerning corporeal pain.
ISBN
  • 0791459268
  • 9780791459263
  • 079145925X
  • 9780791459256
LCCN
2003055620
OCLC
  • ocm52773775
  • 52773775
  • SCSB-9588679
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library