| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 189 p.) |
| Contents |
The destructive side of our erotic life -- What is a death wish in early Freud? -- Freud's later views concerning death as a drive -- Death and the other -- Death and the chain of life -- Introduction to death in the nursing home -- Life for the resident in the nursing home -- Residents' narcissistic frames of mind -- The negation of death in the nursing home -- Coda and exit |
| Summary |
"In Longing for Nothingness: Resistance, Denial, and the Place of Death in the Nursing Home, Andrew Stein offers a groundbreaking new psychoanalytic treatment of the depression and other mental conflicts suffered by residents living in nursing homes. Freud famously argued that humans had a dual drive, toward life and toward death, and in this new study Stein shows that residents may suffer because they cannot control one part of that dualism, their "longing for nothingness." Weaving together elements of Freud's life and writings, Lacanian and Kleinian notions, and clinical material in a new and surprising manner, Stein shows that a frightening breakdown of symbolic and imaginary defenses opens nursing home residents to these deeply repressed longings. Because they often do not know how to respond, the result is an increase in their suffering and tendency to despair." "Longing for Nothingness makes an impassioned plea for all people, and not only residents of nursing homes, to fully acknowledge the role of death in the structures of their desires. By doing this, they will be spared the unnecessary suffering caused by the struggle to keep their longings for death repressed. Stein presents an alternate strategy: bringing the longings for death a little more into consciousness, where they can be addressed without fueling debilitating symptoms like depression and rage."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
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Death -- Psychological aspects.
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Nursing home residents -- Psychology
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Nursing homes -- Psychological aspects
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Chronic diseases -- Psychological aspects.
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Old age homes.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Aged -- psychology
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Attitude to Death
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Homes for the Aged
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Nursing Homes
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Psychoanalytic Theory
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nursing homes.
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psychoanalysis.
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SELF-HELP -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
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Psychoanalysis
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Old age homes
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Chronic diseases -- Psychological aspects
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Death -- Psychological aspects
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Nursing home residents -- Psychology
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Nursing homes -- Psychological aspects
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Pflegeheim
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Altenpflege
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Depression
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Psychoanalyse
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Todesbewusstsein
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020740322 |
| ISBN |
9780765707253 |
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076570725X |
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9780765705785 |
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0765705788 |
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